Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By now I had a long list of prospective release sites and sound experience behind me , so things went pretty much according to plan . |
| 32 | After sharpening the other end , I had a long needle , which has since proved of value in a number of other jobs . |
| 33 | I had a long wait . |
| 34 | ‘ On December 16 , I had a long talk with Kevin and Ian . |
| 35 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 36 | I had a long talk once with the very bright lady who accompanied him in his early days , a lady of charm and accomplishment and infinitely more mature than Niki was . |
| 37 | I had a long talk with Nora this morning . |
| 38 | And coming back I had a long talk with the nice shy boy , Jean-Louis . |
| 39 | They really seem to enjoy running a hotel — I had a long talk with the porter … |
| 40 | " I had a long talk with Sir Geoffrey before you came , " said Mr. Henniker . |
| 41 | And this morning I had a long talk with my mother . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ 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 . |
| 43 | I queued a long time for that loaf . |
| 44 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 45 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 46 | I wrote a long letter to my aunt next morning . |
| 47 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 48 | Bridling , I wrote a long riposte , which was printed in the issue for 2 February 1935 . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 51 | All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment . |
| 52 | In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation . |
| 53 | It was a fall down the cellar steps of one of these houses which started a long history of back trouble . |
| 54 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 55 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 56 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 57 | At last there was room for a central bureau of information , which went a long way to reducing the confusion caused by overlapping responsibilities . |
| 58 | For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air . |
| 59 | Also on Oct. 17 the Supreme Soviet passed a decree which went a long way towards meeting other student demands , and secured an end to the protests . |
| 60 | Pushing all the forceps to one side he almost ran from the room and reappeared shortly with a tray on which reposed a long chisel and a metal mallet . |