Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie drew a long breath , ‘ You have a great variety , but my veterinary training covers most of all these species . |
| 2 | Her face was pale and her voice was as cool as ever , but there was sincerity in her eyes , and Sophie drew a long breath and put out her hand . |
| 3 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 4 | Susanna pulled a long face . |
| 5 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 6 | DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Bert took a long sniff and looked at Yanto . |
| 8 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 9 | He said that the republican leaders had discussed at the meeting financial and other support for Gorbachev " in the period after his resignation " , and he and Gorbachev had a long meeting on Dec. 23 to discuss transition arrangements . |
| 10 | In fact City handed him his goal on a plate as defenders Peter Atherton and David Busst left a long clearance to each other , and Wright stole in to clinch the outcome . |
| 11 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 12 | John Hargreaves , prosecuting , said that Bulmer had a long list of previous convictions . |
| 13 | While the Duke of Argyll had indeed a well-established interest in the county , and John Campbell of Mamore had a long tenure of the parliamentary seat , it is hardly to be wondered that some of the gentlemen resented that blunt statement of Campbell power . |
| 14 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 15 | In 1971 Hick published a longer account of his own ideas in Arguments for the Existence of God . |
| 16 | On 14 February 1961 , the day after news of Lumumba 's death was released , Nkrumah made a long broadcast over Ghanaian radio . |
| 17 | So has Mr Sununu , who as governor of New Hampshire fought a long battle with the greens to open the Seabrook nuclear plant . |
| 18 | Wordsworth produced a long poem in 1787 entitled The Vale of Esthwaite ( Poetical Works , i , 270–83 ) . |
| 19 | Giles drew a long breath . |
| 20 | Here the Shannon resembled a long lake , pale grey in the sunlight . |
| 21 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
| 22 | Curtis undertook a longer research visit of 9 months funded through the INSERM ‘ post-vert ’ visiting research fellowship scheme , during 1989 . |
| 23 | Barnes reached a long arm over the ridge of fallen soil that remained in the mouth of the hole , and groped experimentally around within . |
| 24 | Turner took a long breath . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jake took a long swig from his glass . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Gillis took a long look from one tip of the arc of boys round to the other . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |