Example sentences of "and i [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 2 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 3 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
| 4 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 5 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 6 | ‘ Sorry to get you here so early , ’ he said , ‘ but Angela 's death means we have to reorganize the entire workload , and I wanted a longer meeting today . |