Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 2 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 3 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 4 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 5 | He was on his hands and knees and , although his leg hurt him , he moved quickly across the deck and took a long knife from among some ropes . |
| 6 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 7 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 8 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 9 | He was cradling the telephone and gave a long , heartfelt sigh . |
| 10 | We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge … |
| 11 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 12 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 13 | She cleaned off her smudged make-up , filled the bath and had a long soak . |
| 14 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 15 | On island greens , for example , short of starting the hole with a tee on the island and requiring a long putt for your first stroke , it is simply not possible . |
| 16 | He slid a coin into the slot of the juke-box and let a long , chocolate finger trip over the buttons . |
| 17 | They crossed the city and began a long , slow climb up through the Alfama district . |
| 18 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 19 | The gendarme came over to the table and began a long address to Lambert , who listened politely , commenting ‘ Peut-être ’ , from time to time . |
| 20 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 21 | He and Sergeant Joe , having met in Petticoat Lane and having talked , repaired to a pub and had a long and very friendly conversation . |
| 22 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 23 | Jim Campbell dominated the 5,000 metres winning in 14.15.3 , but his Annadale team-mate Davy Wilson had a off-day and finished a long was behind in second place on 14.47 . |