Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allowed Nicholas a long , hard night 's sleep , followed by a splitting headache in the morning . |
| 2 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 3 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 4 | He gave Zen a long , level look , daring him to deny it . |
| 5 | ‘ I left Plumford a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | The moving mass of mainly Medau and Navy blue clad figures was a very encouraging sight to the hard working girls of the Kent Committee who had spend a long time before the event and on the day itself making sure all went according to plan . |
| 7 | I left Dublin a long time after you … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Leonora a long time afterwards . |