Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |
| 2 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 3 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 4 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 5 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 6 | Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) . |
| 7 | Er a pair of shoes if you bought it had to last you a long long time . |
| 8 | The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period . |
| 9 | It had taken her a long time to get over that . |
| 10 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 11 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |