Example sentences of "[verb] me a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 32 | He gave me a long look . |
| 33 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 34 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 35 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 36 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 37 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 38 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
| 39 | Well it 's taken me a long time to even be able to give affection . |
| 40 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
| 41 | Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest . |
| 42 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 43 | These flowers have lasted me a long time cos Ruth gave them to me on my birthday last month . |