Example sentences of "made a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 2 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 3 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |
| 4 | Parkin made a long sigh to give himself time to think . |
| 5 | This man Boy lived with went swimming every other day , kept the greying hair on his body clipped shod with an electric razor , made a long phone call to a lover in another city every weekend , and kept a photograph of this lover visible in every room of the flat , even the bathroom , so that he was never out of his sight . |
| 6 | Fish-bone paste and heated animal glue made a long process of bonding work , whilst injection moulding and plastics did not exist . |
| 7 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 8 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 9 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 10 | On 14 February 1961 , the day after news of Lumumba 's death was released , Nkrumah made a long broadcast over Ghanaian radio . |
| 11 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 12 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 13 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 14 | And it made a long garage . |
| 15 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 16 | Between 1947 and 1955 a man called Will Cowan made a long series of short documentaries on the popular Jazz artists of the era . |