Example sentences of "and take [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 2 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 3 | He was on his hands and knees and , although his leg hurt him , he moved quickly across the deck and took a long knife from among some ropes . |
| 4 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 5 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |