Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 . |
| 2 | She was often forced to spend months apart from her husband as he embarked on long tours . |
| 3 | He took to long fits of massaging , until his scalp glowed a wealed pink and his arms dropped from exhaustion . |
| 4 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 5 | Like so many of the visitors , though he was dressed in the bright overalls of the Men he stared for long periods into the Cages , but it seemed to Creggan that his staring was different from the others and less cruel . |