Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] from a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 2 | The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off . |
| 3 | Institutions , customs , political and cultural traditions stemming from a long pagan past , were still very much alive in it . |
| 4 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 5 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 6 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 7 | Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains . |
| 8 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |
| 9 | I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth . |
| 10 | Hastings converted from a long way out before John penalty attempt . |
| 11 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |