Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] 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 | 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 . |
4 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
5 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
10 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
11 | Yells of triumph and foot stomping attracted the attention of the manager , who attracted ours with a long cane . |
12 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
13 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
19 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
20 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | " 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | She ushered them down a long corridor through countless swing doors . |
28 | She had no trouble in registering with a secretarial agency , and a variety of jobs carried her through the long , drab days . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | She said it in a long , sighing breath , still staring , almost avidly , at the side of the house . |