Example sentences of "[noun prp] took a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |
| 2 | Bert took a long sniff and looked at Yanto . |
| 3 | Turner took a long breath . |
| 4 | Jake took a long swig from his glass . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Gillis took a long look from one tip of the arc of boys round to the other . |
| 7 | Bodo took a long mouthful of beer . |
| 8 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 9 | Connor took a long swig of beer and wiped his mouth before replying . |
| 10 | Li Shai Tung took a long breath , calming himself . |
| 11 | Reg Butler took a long drag on his cigar and glanced up from his newspaper . |
| 12 | Sam took a long look at her face . |
| 13 | Geoffrey took a long drink of his whisky . |
| 14 | Tippy took a long drink . |
| 15 | Biff took a long swallow from his flask and looked round sourly like a dog disturbed at its bone . |
| 16 | Sophie took a long breath that came in torn fragments — the aftermath of weeping . |
| 17 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 18 | Kate took a long pull on her cigarette and sighed . |
| 19 | Bob took a long draught of whisky , spilling some of it down his chin . |
| 20 | Yanto took a long swig of cider , then closed his eyes and leaned back against the tree trunk with a sign of contentment . |
| 21 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 22 | Charles took a long pull . |
| 23 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 24 | Dalziel took a long pull at his pint and sighed happily . |
| 25 | The French had to give up New France , surrendering the St. Lawrence valley and the east side of the Mississippi ( except for a small area around New Orleans ) to the British , and transfer to the Spanish what was left , so the Spanish empire in North America took a long step forward to the north-east from its base in Texas and New Mexico . |
| 26 | Aunt Tossie took a long pull at her drink . |
| 27 | Mr Beckenham took a long pull at his flask , and then carefully topped it up from the bottle . |