Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a long and " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
| 2 | Trying not to make a sound , I achieved a long and delicious orgasm , a heavenly mixture of sheer physical bliss , emotional release and satisfyingly agitating anxiety . |
| 3 | After visiting No 10 , the outspoken MP for Derbyshire South and former junior health minister , said : ‘ The Prime Minister and I had a long and friendly discussion , and I was very honoured to be asked to join his Government . |
| 4 | One interesting visitor was a man with whom I had a long and interesting talk . |
| 5 | I had a long and wary walk through the pitch-dark jungles — my wariness stemming from having sighted a large tarantula strolling down the road for its evening constitutional . |
| 6 | I was so impressed by this young man that immediately on my return to Vancouver I wrote a long and detailed letter to my parliamentary friend at the House of Commons in Ottawa , A.M. ‘ Sandy ’ Nicholson , M.P. , urging more federal action for the case of the Indian . |
| 7 | Perhaps the latter term suggests too wide a subject-matter ; it would seem , for example , to include extradition ( which has a long and separate history , and is not examined in this book ) as well as the provision of technical assistance in , for example , legislative drafting . |
| 8 | As somebody who helps build houses , he has a dim view of architects , which provokes a long and hugely enjoyable arguments with fellow Londoner Victor Saunders , himself an architect . |
| 9 | Any opening of oneself psychically , particularly at ancient sites which have a long and largely unknown history , can be hazardous , and it is best undertaken with caution and proper attunement . |
| 10 | We were welcomed by a woman vice-chairman of the commune , who made a long and formal speech giving lots of statistics to show how the commune had improved its production in line with Chairman Mao 's directives , and how the Gang of Four had tried to tamper with agricultural production . |
| 11 | Case No. 9 : 76 year-old Sulphur patient with typical 11.00 hr. aggravation and bladder infections felt temporary relief for two months after Sulphur 200 , Sulph 1M was given , but she sustained a long and somewhat debilitating aggravation lasting 6–8 weeks . |
| 12 | It is this same idea which she develops here , as she takes a long and loving look at the work of 28 contemporary artists who have an honoured place in the Middlesbrough permanent collection . |
| 13 | It will help you lead a long and productive life . |
| 14 | Her appetite had apparently disappeared through the door with Adam , but she forced herself to eat breakfast , knowing she had a long and probably arduous day to get through . |
| 15 | She wrote a long and moving letter , describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends . |
| 16 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 17 | We wish a long and happy retirement and hope he will continue to pop in on a weekly basis to keep the Pools Syndicate going . |
| 18 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |
| 19 | We have a long and honourable tradition of public service and I know that this quality will prevail in the months ahead . ’ |
| 20 | After all we have a long and tiring afternoon ahead of us ? ’ |
| 21 | However , we have a long and enduring experience of wider responsibility in the world . |
| 22 | There survives a long and highly circumstantial account of his conversation with the Queen when he was newly a professor at Sheffield , and one is seldom in doubt that this is one who has moved among the great , and without strain . |
| 23 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 24 | Universally used , especially at planting time — which is something of a hoot , as it needs a long and involved bacterial breakdown process for the phosphate to become available for plant uptake . |
| 25 | He has a long and distinguished career in public health medicine : he was the first doctor to give a patient penicillin in 1941 and then moved to the post of director of the Medical Research Council 's Pneumoconiosis Research Unit , investigating diseases of the lung . |
| 26 | Defined as ‘ the encouragement given to an individual by a patron who favours , protects , and gives influential support , ’ it has a long and generally inglorious history in the development of careers in medicine . |
| 27 | The University of Edinburgh , although it has a long and distinguished history , is very much a university of the 1990s . |
| 28 | Like the Australian marsupial Myrmecobius , it has a long and pointed snout , extremely long and pointed in this case , and an extremely long sticky tongue . |
| 29 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 30 | Now there was a pleasant , outgoing and jolly man , and I am glad to say he had a long and happy life . |