Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 2 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 3 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 4 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 5 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 6 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 7 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |