Example sentences of "he [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He took a long drink from the bottle of wine , saying , ‘ Here 's luck ! ’ |
| 32 | He took a long drink and filled his bottle . |
| 33 | He took a long swig , put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly . |
| 34 | He took a long look at the approaching man , who was obviously not keen on leaving the shelter of the trees . |
| 35 | He took a long breath , becoming severely practical before he got out of his depth . |
| 36 | He took a long breath . |
| 37 | He took a long breath then shrugged . |
| 38 | He took a long drag on the cigarette and looked at his watch again . |
| 39 | His dark-brown eyes burnt into mine ; he took a long moment to reply . |
| 40 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 41 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 42 | He took a long step backwards then wheeled and stretched both his arms out . |
| 43 | He took a long puff on his beautiful cigar and tapped the ash into a wastepaper basket full of mimeographed reports . |
| 44 | He wore a long camelhair overcoat , Dr Marten 's boots , and his sandy hair grew spikily down his neck . |
| 45 | Gothic he stated was not the national style its exponents claimed , but a foreign importation and as if to counter his own question to Scott , he recited a long list of classical public buildings in Britain and Ireland . |
| 46 | Taking a break from the Bosnian conflict , he kept a long standing promise to his local swimming pool to help raise money for leukaemia and heart research . |
| 47 | He remembered a long climb between grey-white boulders to gain a flat ground scattered with lumps of quartz , which glittered like giant uncut gems in the sunlight . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 50 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 51 | With one hand smoothing her unruly hair , and the other resting on her hip , he gave a long sigh of contentment . |
| 52 | Folding her against him , he gave a long sigh , then moved her back so that he could look into her face . |
| 53 | Sliding her hands round to his flat stomach , she lightly ran her fingers through the hair arrowing down from his navel and he gave a long shudder . |
| 54 | Part of the lease Arthur signed guaranteed him his brewing water free of tax or pipe money , and in this regard he had a long standing feud with the city authorities which lasted over twenty years . |
| 55 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 56 | He had a long conversation with a Russian passenger , who talked about magic and ‘ hidden powers ’ in a most interesting way . |
| 57 | He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach . |
| 58 | He had a long putt for a 61 and how he wanted that 61 ! |
| 59 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 60 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |