Example sentences of "they [vb past] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 2 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 3 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 4 | ( They had a long argument over this . ) |
| 5 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 6 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 7 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |