Example sentences of "and [vb past] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 2 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 3 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 4 | I bought some black jersey scalloped with gold embroidery from the market , and made a long , three-tiered , halter-necked gown . |
| 5 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 6 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 7 | The Triplane came after him and made a long , angled pass , but he was unaware of it . |
| 8 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 9 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 10 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 11 | Joanna put down her cup and drew a long breath . |
| 12 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 13 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 14 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 15 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 16 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 17 | They crossed the city and began a long , slow climb up through the Alfama district . |
| 18 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 19 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 20 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 21 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 22 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 23 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 24 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 25 | Jim Campbell dominated the 5,000 metres winning in 14.15.3 , but his Annadale team-mate Davy Wilson had a off-day and finished a long was behind in second place on 14.47 . |
| 26 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're on the pan Am flight this afternoon , ’ Susanna explained , and pulled a long face . |
| 28 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 29 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 30 | At the hearing Randolph 's counsel , Mr Fearnley-Whittingstall QC ( a well-known right-wing lawyer , who also acted for the defendants in the Spectator libel case ) , got up and delivered a long and passionate address about the iniquity of what had happened . |