Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 32 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 33 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 34 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 35 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 36 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 37 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
| 38 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 39 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 40 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 41 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |
| 42 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
| 43 | After a frugal meal , she wrapped herself in a long white cashmere cardigan that Ace had insisted on buying her , and sat out on the balcony that overlooked the distant Atlantic ocean , and , more immediately , the beautiful gardens of the hotel . |
| 44 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 45 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 46 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |