Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 2 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 3 | I wrote her a long long |
| 4 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 5 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 7 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 8 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 9 | You gave me a long description . ’ |
| 10 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 11 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She gave me a long , disdainful , disappointed look and then out of the charity of her heart , graciously excused me thus : |
| 14 | She gave me a long , loving look . |
| 15 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 16 | She gave him a long , appraising look , then asked silkily , ‘ Well , how much would it be — without the greenhouse ? ’ |
| 17 | She gave him a long , steady look . |
| 18 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 19 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 20 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |
| 21 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 22 | He poured her a long cool gin sling , and bade her sit . |
| 23 | He delivered her a long look , then smiled . |
| 24 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 25 | He sent her a long , steady look , then glanced across the yard . |
| 26 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 27 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 29 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 30 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |