Example sentences of "and [verb] 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 | Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow , and make a long face , or only metaphorically ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 5 | I bought some black jersey scalloped with gold embroidery from the market , and made a long , three-tiered , halter-necked gown . |
| 6 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Triplane came after him and made a long , angled pass , but he was unaware of it . |
| 9 | This lovely Victorian house is quite blissfully situated amongst a cluster of houses , in the village of Alnmouth , right on the banks of the river estuary , with only a small garden and a ‘ no through ’ road between it and the beach — it is brilliant for tumbling out of bed and enjoying a long walk on almost deserted sands . |
| 10 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 11 | has been quite ill recently so all at Greens wish her all good health and for her and to enjoy a long and happy retirement . |
| 12 | He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole |
| 13 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 14 | This land is mainly low-lying , of strong soil , low rainfall , and has a long , warm growing season . |
| 15 | It covers the period from the Norman Conquest to the present day , and has a long section on suggestions for further reading . |
| 16 | The human being ( a far more complex creature inhabiting a far more complex world ) needs to be highly adaptive and has a long period of play in which to build up a vast repertoire of behaviours . |
| 17 | The implement you need has an overall length of some 6 foot 6 inches ( 2 metres ) , is ash-handled and has a long , narrow spoon-shaped blade set at a slight angle to the shaft . |
| 18 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 19 | It 's an excellent under-body insulator and has a long effective life . |
| 20 | The competition will tell you that their product is fresh , takes advantage of advances in program writing and has a long development life ahead of it . |
| 21 | A small generator can be used primarily to stop a battery discharging and it will only be able to recharge a battery if it is small and has a long time in which to do it . |
| 22 | The okapi , according to Gill Venner , is shy and elusive and has a long gestation period . ) |
| 23 | The interior is finely preserved ( 263 ) and has a long nave , with barrel vaulted aisles , broad transepts and a fine apse with groined vault . |
| 24 | By late March 1019 he is likely to have been in Winchester : S 956 was granted in the royal presence to the New Minster during the first week of Easter , and has a long witness list which no doubt represents the gathering of the Easter court . |
| 25 | Some of these , certainly in Johannesburg , are located in the city , far from the townships , and involve a long journey . |
| 26 | Apart from ERA 's determination to find and fund a long term solution to the dampness problem and to prove that their living conditions were more suited to the health of the fungus families than human families , they were equally determined to get Public Health on the political agenda and to dispel the myth that smoking , diet and lack of exercise were solely responsible for Glasgow 's award winning heart disease record . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He stopped and drew a long breath and I stared at him and said : ‘ Are you serious ? ’ |
| 29 | Joanna put down her cup and drew a long breath . |
| 30 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |