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

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1 We passed a long , low , adobe wall .
2 Hoo-Woo opened the door and we entered a long tunnel .
3 He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants .
4 I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’
5 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 .
6 I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in .
7 And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him .
8 We felt a long way from the Mediterranean .
9 we foresaw a long downturn back in 1989 and we planned for it with re investment .
10 We waited a long time at Enniskillen , an RAF helicopter buzzing above the castle .
11 We waited a long time , and Charlotte wrote more advertisements .
12 We had a long journey back to Holland .
13 ‘ Oh , we had a long talk , ’ Sheila said airily .
14 ‘ 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 .
15 He came to two of my concerts and afterwards we had a long talk .
16 We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant .
17 Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself .
18 We had a long journey . ’
19 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 ?
20 We had a long talk when we had dinner together , ’ Haverford said out of a silence in respect of the dead .
21 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 .
22 Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals .
23 Well if we had a long a long thing to read .
24 We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 We had a long chat . ’
28 Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us .
29 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 .
30 We had a long piece of plastic tubing to help each other with .
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