Example sentences of "and [vb past] a long [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 2 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 3 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 4 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 5 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 6 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |