Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 2 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 3 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 4 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 5 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 6 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 7 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 8 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 9 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 10 | They found themselves in a long dark gallery above a massive room . |
| 11 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 12 | She instanced her of a long line of lagers , I consumed three Waistwatchers , two Seckburgers , an American Way and a double order of Tuckleberry Pie . |
| 13 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 14 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 15 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 16 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
| 17 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 18 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 19 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 20 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 21 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 22 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 23 | Damian led her to a long dark blue velvet sofa and ordered a bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne , which was brought to their table in a silver ice-bucket . |
| 24 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 25 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 26 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 27 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 28 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 29 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 30 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |