Example sentences of "i [vb past] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | For my part , I endured a long disquisition on the Tractarians from a young and opinionated university liberal . |
2 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
3 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
4 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
5 | I got a long bright beam from the shiny eyes . |
6 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
7 | As soon as the train started , I drew a long breath of relief . |
8 | I stroked the long handle of the trowel , wondering if my father had a name for that stick of his . |
9 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
10 | I drove the long way round , debating what to say and do . ’ |
11 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
12 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |
13 | That is why I allowed a long run on question 1 today — It was longer than I would normally allow . |
14 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
15 | I released a long , tense breath , flicked the stub of my cigarette into the lake , and turned to look back where Edward and Laura squatted before the smoking kiln , for all the world the alchemist and his mystic sister , except that the roles were powerfully reversed , and — I realized suddenly — they were arguing under their breath . |
16 | I walked the long way with the early sun bright in my eyes and frosted gravel crisp beneath my feet . |
17 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
18 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
19 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
20 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
21 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
22 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
23 | I followed a long harbour-wall pathway , then took a gate into a park . |
24 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |
25 | Trying not to make a sound , I achieved a long and delicious orgasm , a heavenly mixture of sheer physical bliss , emotional release and satisfyingly agitating anxiety . |
26 | We glanced at each other , and I pulled a long , apprehensive face . |
27 | But within days meal times became battlegrounds between my family and me , and I needed the long walks more than ever , to let off steam . |
28 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
29 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
30 | Then there was another , and others behind it , and I saw the long bare tail like a whip , the narrow head , the yellow teeth that seemed too big for the jaws , the glittering red eyes . |