Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 2 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 3 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 4 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 5 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 6 | When it slammed behind him she let out a long , shaky breath and felt blindly for a chair , afraid she 'd collapse without some means of support . |
| 7 | She let out a long , sobbing shriek . |
| 8 | She let out a long , appreciative sigh . |
| 9 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 10 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 11 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 12 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 13 | She gave out a long sigh . |
| 14 | She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home . |
| 15 | She pushed back a long fair curl with one hand . |
| 16 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 17 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 18 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 19 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 20 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 21 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 22 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 23 | Turning off the lane at a sign marked ‘ Private Road ’ , they bumped over a long , pot-holed track , climbing up towards the brow of the hill . |
| 24 | Instead was a happy medley of Luke laughing , of taking her hand as they ran up a long flight of grey stone steps towards some vague but wonderful journey 's end . |
| 25 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 26 | It let out a long clang . |
| 27 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 28 | He let out a long , shuddering breath . |
| 29 | He let out a long breath and raised his hands to cover both ears . |
| 30 | He let out a long breath then turned to look at Hitch . |