Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 3 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 4 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 5 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 6 | Alec led the strenuous but short-lived pitch and I continued up the long Needle Crack : sustained but never too difficult ; glorious bridging above the full height of the crag . |
| 7 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 8 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 9 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 10 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 11 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 12 | This was a process which extended over a long period , and in the seventeenth century the extent of their privileges in this respect was still far from clear . |
| 13 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 14 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 15 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 16 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 17 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 18 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 19 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 20 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 21 | She gave out a long sigh . |
| 22 | One suggestion has been that the energy output of the Sun itself fluctuates over a long period . |
| 23 | She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope . |
| 24 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 25 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 26 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 27 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 28 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 29 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 30 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |