Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period . |
| 3 | It had taken her a long time to get over that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |