Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a long [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
| 2 | Trying not to make a sound , I achieved a long and delicious orgasm , a heavenly mixture of sheer physical bliss , emotional release and satisfyingly agitating anxiety . |
| 3 | After visiting No 10 , the outspoken MP for Derbyshire South and former junior health minister , said : ‘ The Prime Minister and I had a long and friendly discussion , and I was very honoured to be asked to join his Government . |
| 4 | One interesting visitor was a man with whom I had a long and interesting talk . |
| 5 | I had a long and wary walk through the pitch-dark jungles — my wariness stemming from having sighted a large tarantula strolling down the road for its evening constitutional . |
| 6 | I was so impressed by this young man that immediately on my return to Vancouver I wrote a long and detailed letter to my parliamentary friend at the House of Commons in Ottawa , A.M. ‘ Sandy ’ Nicholson , M.P. , urging more federal action for the case of the Indian . |
| 7 | Case No. 9 : 76 year-old Sulphur patient with typical 11.00 hr. aggravation and bladder infections felt temporary relief for two months after Sulphur 200 , Sulph 1M was given , but she sustained a long and somewhat debilitating aggravation lasting 6–8 weeks . |
| 8 | Her appetite had apparently disappeared through the door with Adam , but she forced herself to eat breakfast , knowing she had a long and probably arduous day to get through . |
| 9 | She wrote a long and moving letter , describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends . |
| 10 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 11 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |
| 12 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 13 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 14 | Now there was a pleasant , outgoing and jolly man , and I am glad to say he had a long and happy life . |
| 15 | She held the young man 's prick — and he had a long and a thick one … ) |
| 16 | Strikingly good-looking and energetically homosexual , he conducted a long but conspicuously unsuccessful search amongst working-class men for ‘ the Ideal Friend ’ . |