Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 3 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 4 | But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations . |
| 5 | Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ . |
| 6 | But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither . |
| 7 | Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized . |
| 8 | Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager . |
| 9 | It was one of those accidents that took a long time to begin to feel serious . |
| 10 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 11 | Mr. John Jeffery , the auctioneer , looked himself every inch a farmer and had a wonderfully fruity voice that carried a long way . |
| 12 | What about the last we did yesterday actually designers and training , it 's quite a , it 's quite a struggle that had a long day , been sitting here for a couple of hours I du n no it seems longer and there you are and you 're actually struggling |
| 13 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 14 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 15 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 16 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 17 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 18 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 19 | Joanna put down her cup and drew a long breath . |
| 20 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 21 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 22 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 23 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 24 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 25 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 26 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 27 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 28 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're on the pan Am flight this afternoon , ’ Susanna explained , and pulled a long face . |
| 30 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |