Example sentences of "they [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 2 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 3 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 4 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |
| 5 | They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke . |
| 6 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 7 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |
| 8 | They trailed a long rope ( the only way of escaping off this severely overhanging route ) all the way up and through the grade to be ‘ mild E6 ’ . |
| 9 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 10 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 11 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 12 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 13 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 14 | They had a long way to go . |
| 15 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 16 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 17 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 18 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 19 | ( They had a long argument over this . ) |
| 20 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 21 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 22 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 23 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |
| 24 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 25 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 26 | They carried a long plastic body-bag into the building . |