Example sentences of "[pers pn] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 2 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 3 | And to warn him the long knives were out . |
| 4 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 5 | Her composure regained , she turned back to hand him the long tall glass of iced tea , managing with an effort not to flinch visibly when his fingers touched her . |
| 6 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
| 7 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 8 | Before her the long straight reach of the canal lay like a silver ribbon . |
| 9 | Have you remarked , where a fast-flowing stream comes to a little fall , how the racing water becomes glassy smooth and under it the long fine threads of the water-weed are drawn along in its still-seeming race , trembling a little , but stretched out in the flow ? |
| 10 | ‘ If that does n't work we will then dig in and do it the long and hard way . ’ |
| 11 | You 've got all you 've got really you 've got the hypotenuse but you do n't need to bother with you just can call it the long one . |
| 12 | And after it the long , sudden , yolk-yellow |
| 13 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 14 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |