Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a long [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie drew in a long breath and glanced at the child before answering Ben . |
| 2 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 3 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 4 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 5 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 6 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 7 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 8 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 9 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |