Example sentences of "out [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 2 | It was struggling vainly to free itself , bleating weakly , but suddenly letting out the long , piping , despairing cry that had first arrested Deborah 's attention . |
| 3 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 4 | The patron let out the long slow whistle of a kettle coming to the boil . |
| 5 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 6 | And they did ; all flattened and crouched , creeping low in the grass ; quite unlike the sprightly reed with its flashy habit of fanning out the long tail to show off white outer tail feathers . |
| 7 | Dipping her two hands in the neck of Cissie 's night-shift , Beth drew out the long brown locks , spreading them over the collar and fanning the hair out as it was not altogether dry . |
| 8 | No doubt you have spotted the ‘ Proby Pack ’ , as we call ourselves , clustered at the Sewage Lane end , our shaven heads painted with such menacing slogans as ‘ Cut out the long balls ’ or , on a couple of big heads , ‘ Using two sweepers is a tactical error , Les ’ . |
| 9 | Cormac of the Wolves , sitting out the long years of his exile ; Niall and the Nine Lords chained and starving in the dungeons . |
| 10 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 11 | ‘ There is enough to do , ’ he said , and let out a long breath . |
| 12 | The new road bridge spanning the Dornoch Firth was suggested as having a dual role — carrying both road and rail , the rail section to be a new piece of line which would cut out a long detour and dramatically reduce the journey time to the Far North . |
| 13 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 14 | Ellen Harker let out a long breath and relaxed visibly . |
| 15 | Oh , my dear — ’ Alison suddenly reached out a long brown arm . |
| 16 | Benstede pursed his lips and let out a long sigh . |
| 17 | With the body and neck made of maple , a wide strap is almost essential , as the Artist weighs a ton , and lasting out a long gig without collapsing or gaining some kind of spinal disorder is something of an achievement . |
| 18 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 19 | ‘ Reminds me of the duodenum , ’ said Rufus , yanking out a long slimy stem and lassoing Adam with it , catching his neck in a halter of living rope . |
| 20 | Putting his hand inside his dirty bomber jacket , he drew out a long , thick kitchen knife and put it on the dashboard . |
| 21 | Lucinda ran her tongue round her suddenly dry lips and let out a long , slow whistle . |
| 22 | He lets out a long , marvellously theatrical sigh . |
| 23 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 24 | His torment is that he is forced to face the etched face of a Daemonette carved into the wall opposite , which flicks out a long serrated fleshy tongue which rips into the man 's neck and chest . |
| 25 | Then , satisfied that the French would check their advance till they were certain no picquet line waited in ambush , he stared westwards towards the clouds and let out a long heavy breath . |
| 26 | It has been placed in receivership after failing to ride out a long economic recession which has hit the building industry very hard . |
| 27 | Suddenly , on the other side of the path , the fern parted and there looked out a long , dog-like head , striped black and white . |
| 28 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 29 | He took out a long piece of paper , and read : |
| 30 | It let out a long clang . |