Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 2 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 3 | But I believe that what you should do with trying to come to estimates of housing provision , is to put together the best technical assumptions that you can , to then sit down and take a long hard look at the figures based on the erm the policies of the County Council as approved by the Secretary of State in previous structure plan approvals , the current government policy . |
| 4 | After a song and a prayer , a priest in green vestments came on and preached a long sermon warning us all not to misuse authority . |
| 5 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 6 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 7 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 8 | At the hearing Randolph 's counsel , Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall QC ( a well-known right-wing lawyer , who also acted for the defendants in the Spectator libel case ) , got up and delivered a long and passionate address about the iniquity of what had happened . |
| 9 | She tilted her head back and took a long , refreshing drink . |
| 10 | Fenella whipped round and saw a long and terrible shadow fall across the floor . |