Example sentences of "his [noun] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sammy gave his fingers a long lick . |
| 2 | Patrick had seen the chance to ask a question that had been on his mind a long time . |
| 3 | We have also from his pen a long Dialogue with Trypho the Jew . |
| 4 | We wish and his wife a long and happy retirement together . |
| 5 | He put his horse and his dog a long way before his wife . ’ |
| 6 | There was throughout his life a long conflict between what may one may call a sort of scientific naturalism in his attitude to the world , and the impulse to hypostatize his ideals , to create out of his ideals erm ideal beings of some kind , and so to worship . |
| 7 | Instead , he gave Carter and his advisers a long talk on how he saw the international situation . |
| 8 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 9 | He must have started writing his book a long time ago . |
| 10 | James Vane gave his mother a long , hard look . |