Example sentences of "through [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov is one of the others , though it 's only through the long crime-and-punishment process that he comes to understand this : he had ‘ wanted something more ’ — more than our mere-existence rain . |
| 3 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 4 | With perfect buoyancy we lay in the current , drifting at no mean speed through the long fronds of kelp , angling our bodies to follow the curves of the bottom . |
| 5 | All through the long , twisting lanes the route was marked by twigs — twigs from the witch 's broom — which led to Threlkeld and only ceased when they came to the church with a steeple crowned by a gilded weathercock . |
| 6 | Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice . |
| 7 | Without going through the long list of advantages that they possess , one or two are extremely appealing — a fast enough speed of about 60 miles an hour , low enough height for passengers to be able to enjoy the view and an ability to stop without falling . |
| 8 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 9 | ‘ Best hang tight to my arm , boy , ’ he yelled and together they leaned forward and tramped through the long wet grass to wrestle with the Littles ' gate . |
| 10 | The shudder of the bigger wave sent a shock wave through the long hull , and I laughed aloud with the pleasure of it . |
| 11 | Nomes slept mainly at night , but needed catnaps to get through the long day . |
| 12 | There 's Hawaiian Tropic Aftersun Moisturiser , with tropical oils , and aloe rich , Cool Aloe Gel to apply through the long tropical evenings . |
| 13 | I 'm not calling , either , for sporadic barracking or bricks through the Long Room windows . |
| 14 | Such masters of the merciless put-down must have studied each other 's writings through the long intellectual civil wars of the 1930s and after with a mounting respect that no dogmatic divide could dim . |
| 15 | They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice . |
| 16 | In America , partly because of more recycling , safeguards depended more on full accounting for the nuclear materials themselves as they passed through the long and complex procedures . |
| 17 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 18 | They hurried through the long arch , dodging between the workers who were making their way to London Bridge Station , and then quickly crossed St Thomas 's Street and hurried through the high , wide gates of Guy 's Hospital . |
| 19 | Some of us had been trying to make our voices heard against Saddam through the long years when he was hugger-mugger with every leader of the western world . |
| 20 | But that night she had knelt in her cell through the long , dark hours , begging the Almighty to forgive her for her envy and sadness . |
| 21 | Bigwig and Hawkbit chased each other through the long grass . |
| 22 | I am here , Lord Frith , I am running through the long grass . |
| 23 | He remembered how Bigwig had chased Hawkbit through the long grass , forgetting the quarrel of the previous night in the joy of their arrival . |
| 24 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 25 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |
| 26 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 27 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 28 | After her decision to stop working with a model , she wrote : ‘ Through the long time of working on studies , I finally have attained a certain background in technique which allows me to express what I want without a model . ’ |
| 29 | He watched them moving very slowly through the long , green grass . |
| 30 | The cows moved slowly through the long green grass . |