Example sentences of "[pers pn] took a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after leaving SIS , I took a long holiday in Italy . |
| 2 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 3 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 4 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 5 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 6 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 7 | She took a long drink of her tea and then continued , ‘ Anyway , she 'll go before long , never fear . ’ |
| 8 | She took a long draw on her cigarette , looking at me curiously . |
| 9 | Unused to spicy food , she took a long mouthful of the gin and tonic , which she could now no longer even taste , then very deliberately she finished the chicken wing and ate another one . |
| 10 | Back in the cottage she took a long , hot bath , but the water failed to ease the tension in her body , even though she lay there for what seemed like an eternity , trying to will away the effects of the afternoon . |
| 11 | Instead , she took a long , hot bath , scattering in a lavish handful of scented flakes and letting the perfumed water ease some of the tension from her body . |
| 12 | She took a long , deep breath to control herself . |
| 13 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 14 | ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back . |
| 15 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 16 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 17 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 18 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 19 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 20 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 21 | He took a long reflective swallow . |
| 22 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 23 | He took a long drag on the cigarette and looked at his watch again . |
| 24 | He took a long breath , becoming severely practical before he got out of his depth . |
| 25 | He took a long pull . |
| 26 | Shivering , he took a long , slow breath of her . |
| 27 | He took a long drink from the bottle of wine , saying , ‘ Here 's luck ! ’ |
| 28 | He took a long puff on his beautiful cigar and tapped the ash into a wastepaper basket full of mimeographed reports . |
| 29 | He took a long breath . |
| 30 | His dark-brown eyes burnt into mine ; he took a long moment to reply . |