Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Giles drew a long breath . |
| 32 | Peter Settelen has a long list of television credits to his name , appearing in Crown Court and Z-Cars . |
| 33 | Here the Shannon resembled a long lake , pale grey in the sunlight . |
| 34 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
| 35 | Barnes reached a long arm over the ridge of fallen soil that remained in the mouth of the hole , and groped experimentally around within . |
| 36 | Turner took a long breath . |
| 37 | The following day , 11 May , Alexander sent a long telegram to the Combined Chiefs of Staff [ KP 69 ] arguing on operational grounds against any compromise with Tito 's demands , and discussing the implications of a decision to use force to oust his troops . |
| 38 | Jake took a long swig from his glass . |
| 39 | Horace took a long view of excellence ; a very rough idea of his aesthetic commitment to the tradition of Greek letters , and some understanding of the initially cool ( or possibly baffled ) public reception of his Greek-inspired Odes , might be gained if we were to try to imagine one of our own Augustans studiously engaged , while everyone else relied on the staple measure of the heroic couplet , in the production of poems imitating the intricate court metres of the Nordic skald , such as the Drottkvaett , or the Dunhenda . |
| 40 | Mr Gillis took a long look from one tip of the arc of boys round to the other . |
| 41 | In a report released in late March Hills outlined a long list of trade practices which she alleged were unfair and were hampering the growth of US exports to Thailand . |
| 42 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |
| 43 | Probably the greatest scientific panjandrum of the 19th century , Thomson had a long association with transoceanic cables . |
| 44 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 45 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 46 | Cornelius stretched a long arm to the dashboard and unclipped the driver 's radio mike . |
| 47 | This boyish hatred of military interference to put down Communism in Russia had a long consequence . |
| 48 | Anabelle waited a long time , watching from the other side of the gate . |
| 49 | Phil Kite is struggling against a hand injury and Mel Rees faces a long recovery from cancer surgery last summer . |
| 50 | North Shields has a long history of democratic local government and is currently under the political control of the most left-wing Labour authority in the North East . |
| 51 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 52 | Mister Grant has a long way to go before he will fully recover from his injuries . |
| 53 | Hazlitt relished a long summer walk to the Valley of the Rocks , undertaken with Coleridge and John Chester , a farmer 's son from Dodington . |
| 54 | Under this leadership the school of geology at Cambridge spawned a long list of well-known geologists who served in universities , geological surveys , and museums in Britain , India , South Africa , and other countries . |
| 55 | This is not to deny the differences ; it is simply to stress both the connections — which link them within what Raymond Williams calls a Long Revolution — and the importance of the word ‘ potential ’ . |
| 56 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 57 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
| 58 | Bodo took a long mouthful of beer . |
| 59 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 60 | Connor took a long swig of beer and wiped his mouth before replying . |