Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my day we had long skirts , near came right down to the ground . ’ |
| 2 | During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Dalmatian cities changed hands many times , but despite these upheavals they enjoyed long periods of prosperity and their commerce and their arts flourished . |
| 3 | All large , cheerful girls in their late teens , to my great relief they wore long skirts and mats around their waists , tied as tradition dictates with a braided kiekei band . |
| 4 | I think the reason I wanted long hair was because all my dolls were Sindys and Pippas , and they all had long blonde hair , so that was what I wanted . |
| 5 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 6 | These are ones I bought long time ago . |
| 7 | Despite all this external activity he spent long periods of time in his diocese , active in every facet of ecclesiastical administration , as is revealed by his register , the first to survive for the diocese of Winchester . |
| 8 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |