Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 2 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 3 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 4 | At present , Ann led and Megan followed , but that would sort itself out in the long run . |
| 5 | I have known you well over a long period of time . |
| 6 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 7 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 8 | Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run . |
| 9 | He looked at her thoughtfully for a long moment before nodding . |
| 10 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 11 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 12 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 13 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 16 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 17 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 18 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 19 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 20 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 21 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 22 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |
| 23 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |
| 24 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 25 | As the flames died down and the dancers stood back for the family to precede them upstairs into the Long Room , there was a subtle change in the atmosphere . |
| 26 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 27 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |