Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 2 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 3 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 4 | She had looked everywhere else and , although it seemed a long shot , she might as well look in there . |
| 5 | Well if we had a long a long thing to read . |
| 6 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |
| 7 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 8 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 9 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 10 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 11 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 12 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 13 | You hear the crowd roar and a new name comes up on the leaderboard and you wonder whether he holed a long putt or chipped in . |
| 14 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |
| 15 | Did you say these used to rub your toes when you went a long way in them ? |
| 16 | Her name was Louise , she said , as she grabbed a long kiss , tongue first . |
| 17 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 18 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 19 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 20 | erm The second half started as the first half finished , with a again a very erm entertaining game erm in the fiftieth minute , on a break , Almondsbury 's Alex Stocker was nearest to scoring for them when he floated a long ball forward which Mark Sibble was very glad to tip over the bar . |
| 21 | Five minutes later , United goalkeeper , Ken Vasey was just fought when he missed a long cross from the left , and Bull was there heading into the empty net . |
| 22 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
| 23 | Julia followed him through a tall , wrought-iron gate and waited on the weedy gravel in front of the pale yellow walls of a large square villa as he pulled a long , iron bell . |
| 24 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |