Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 2 | Someone got a long pole and closed the shutter . |
| 3 | For my part , I endured a long disquisition on the Tractarians from a young and opinionated university liberal . |
| 4 | I 'ad a long stint wiv Galloway an' I was gutted when I got the push an' we 'ad ter get out o' the 'ouse . |
| 5 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 6 | If you were right out in empty space — I mean a long , long way from anything else — you 'd expect to go straight ahead . |
| 7 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 8 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 9 | I got a long bright beam from the shiny eyes . |
| 10 | I got a long way to go to get to high class . |
| 11 | As soon as the train started , I drew a long breath of relief . |
| 12 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I came a long way to say I 'm sorry , ’ Leonora reminded him . |
| 14 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 15 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 16 | It was best not to wonder , for I faced a long journey in what remained of the Maggot 's plane . |
| 17 | That is why I allowed a long run on question 1 today — It was longer than I would normally allow . |
| 18 | On the way across I enjoyed a long and interesting talk with the young son of a Haida chief . |
| 19 | I released a long , tense breath , flicked the stub of my cigarette into the lake , and turned to look back where Edward and Laura squatted before the smoking kiln , for all the world the alchemist and his mystic sister , except that the roles were powerfully reversed , and — I realized suddenly — they were arguing under their breath . |
| 20 | " I know a long time . |
| 21 | I think it was Old Harlow or Hoddesdon somewhere I used to go , I know a long way off we had to go because there was n't anything round here was there ? |
| 22 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 23 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 24 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 25 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 26 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 27 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 28 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 29 | I followed a long harbour-wall pathway , then took a gate into a park . |
| 30 | Silver and I followed a long way behind the rest , and I had to help him . |