Example sentences of "we [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel . |
| 2 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 3 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 4 | We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't . |
| 5 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 6 | We felt a long way from the Mediterranean . |
| 7 | we foresaw a long downturn back in 1989 and we planned for it with re investment . |
| 8 | We waited a long time at Enniskillen , an RAF helicopter buzzing above the castle . |
| 9 | We waited a long time , and Charlotte wrote more advertisements . |
| 10 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 11 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 12 | We had a long journey back to Holland . |
| 13 | We had a long journey . ’ |
| 14 | In August we had a long weekend in the Lakes , with Rob , Joyce & Ewan which went well , & also a week in Telford with Richard which we thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 15 | We had a long chat . ’ |
| 16 | So she came and talked to 'em we had a long chat and actually I mean it er does sound very interesting . |
| 17 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 20 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 21 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 22 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 23 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , we had a long talk , ’ Sheila said airily . |
| 25 | He came to two of my concerts and afterwards we had a long talk . |
| 26 | ‘ We had a long talk when we had dinner together , ’ Haverford said out of a silence in respect of the dead . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ We had a long talk about the future . ’ |
| 29 | We had a long piece of plastic tubing to help each other with . |
| 30 | We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ? |