Example sentences of "and [vb past] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 2 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 3 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 4 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 5 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 6 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 7 | Joanna put down her cup and drew a long breath . |
| 8 | He gave his scalp a good scratch , then smoothed his hair down as best he could and twisted the longer bits at the back into a coil which he stuffed inside his collar . |
| 9 | He considered both were good examples for others to follow and deplored the long petipa ballets which lost their meaning through the inclusion of innumerable divertissements in which : ‘ Petipa only devised new difficulties fur the dancers . ’ |
| 10 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 11 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 12 | With both hands he smoothed and adjusted the long sausage-roll of cloth that hugged the bottom of the door to keep out those icy draughts ever present in the rest of the house . |
| 13 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 14 | She turned sideways and admired the long sweep of her neck , mentally accessorising the garment . |
| 15 | It was the sturdy Bates who fielded Morris 's kick in the last second and threw the long pass inside to Davies . |
| 16 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 17 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 18 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 19 | After lunch , full of roast beef , Yorkshire pudding , apple pie and custard , I took the back lane from Settle to Langcliffe and began the long climb out of the village by road . |
| 20 | Their relationship became more and more covert ; he left the police and they moved to a suburb where they ‘ passed for white ’ and began the long struggle called ‘ trying for white ’ . |
| 21 | She completed the usual task of washing and scouring the pots and dishes after dinner , and when Mrs Prynn had inspected her work and approved it , she lay down on her narrow bed and began the long wait for darkness — and for Tristram . |
| 22 | Brushing off the leaves , I engaged ‘ push ’ and began the long walk home . |
| 23 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 24 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 25 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 26 | He bought some rocks and stones , and spent the long summer evenings building a rock garden over the grave . |
| 27 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 28 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're on the pan Am flight this afternoon , ’ Susanna explained , and pulled a long face . |
| 30 | One by one he filled each chamber with powder and then , without wadding or patch , placed a soft lead ball on its mouth and pulled the long lever beneath the barrel ; this lever moved the rammer which forced the lead down into the chamber and sealed it so completely , the Collector had been assured , that the powder would still fire even if you immersed your arm completely in water . |