Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [adv] long " in BNC.

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1 He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole .
2 He took a terribly long time to clean his hands .
3 He chose a very long one and realising it was too long chose a smaller one .
4 Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them .
5 He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’
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