Example sentences of "[adj] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had fought in vain to control his bike as he hurtled through Mathers Cross , which leads the riders towards Portrush and into the fastest section of the nine-mile long circuit . |
| 2 | cold last night , , far old long trot down from hill , in n it ? |
| 3 | They had these big old long horns . |
| 4 | We went first to the Visitor Centre , an old long house barn built of locally quarried limestone and slate , to check up on ‘ new arrivals ’ — summer migrants flying in . |
| 5 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 6 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 7 | In the words of the Swedish writer Nils Aberg : ‘ We are compelled … to assume a direct long distance influence between the Mediterranean world and Ireland . |
| 8 | On the resumption Kilkeel were awarded three consecutive penalty corners but they were unable to add to their slender advantage , and the direct long ball tactic from Service meant that Kilkeel always had to be alert to the breakaway . |
| 9 | There was another long banner , duplication of the one in the station , fastened to the side of the train , telling all the passengers what they were going on , if they were still in any doubt . |
| 10 | But a far better early evening occupation is to watch the sky slip from pink through mauve to deepest purple and reflect on what you 're missing : the shop-till-you-drop malls of Singapore or another long night on the Jumbo . |
| 11 | The failure of the PDPA 's vision of ‘ progress ’ may presage yet another long night for the Afghan people . |
| 12 | I stand another long minute on the cold pavement opposite his terraced house , and I watch . |
| 13 | Another long pause , then : ‘ Exactly … what do you do ? ’ |
| 14 | There was another long pause . |
| 15 | Sgurr a'Choire Rainich , the peak of the heathery corrie , is the secondary ‘ horn of this north west thrust of hill , and called for another long pause to gaze over ‘ the ever silent spaces of the East . ’ |
| 16 | There was another long pause . |
| 17 | There was another long pause and then he said unsteadily , " All right . " |
| 18 | Another long pause and , ‘ So you 'll call me soon , will you ? |
| 19 | There was another long pause in which he seemed to be trying to choose his words . |
| 20 | On a Creagan a'Choire Etchachan , a line spotted in the summer beside scabbard and crossing Sheath , therefore called Switchblade ( V ) , gave another long day to John Lyall and me . |
| 21 | Sally did n't want another long day on the hill , so wished me well and watched for an hour as my headtorch beam got smaller and more erratic as I moved away across the glacier , interrogating the ice . |
| 22 | The Judge held the air of someone very world-weary , and this was accurate to some extent , as he had just re-read the case notes , and sensed today was going to be another long day . |
| 23 | Then there 's another long unit right at side of it , just enough to get one trailer in . |
| 24 | One could , for example , look no further than T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets for another long poem which sifts through past experience in order to make sense of it , trying to re-create ‘ the moment in the rose-garden ’ and other ‘ gleams and glimpses ’ — to use Wordsworth 's vocabulary — of eternity . |
| 25 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 26 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |
| 27 | At midday , he always took a half-hour break , sitting in the kitchen armchair with his feet up on a stool , nibbling toast and dripping and preparing for another long afternoon behind the counter . |
| 28 | She gave another long sigh . |
| 29 | Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 . |
| 30 | Decoy the enemy past there and on southwards for Kalemouth , another long mile . |