Example sentences of "and made a long " in BNC.

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1 I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees .
2 I bought some black jersey scalloped with gold embroidery from the market , and made a long , three-tiered , halter-necked gown .
3 Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism .
4 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 .
5 The Triplane came after him and made a long , angled pass , but he was unaware of it .
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