Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | One interesting visitor was a man with whom I had a long and interesting talk . |
| 2 | Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book . |
| 3 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 4 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 5 | A passionate lover of the Savoy Operas , she was a founder member of the Bradford Gilbert and Sullivan Society , with who she had a long association . |
| 6 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 7 | He showed her that like him she had a long life-line . |
| 8 | When finally he released her she drew a long breath and mumbled inarticulately into his shirt front , ‘ I do n't know what 's wrong with me . |
| 9 | So she came and talked to 'em we had a long chat and actually I mean it er does sound very interesting . |