Example sentences of "[pron] come [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 3 | For me , overriding all practical considerations , there is the spiritual uplift which comes after a long sea passage when , at dawn or evening , I enter some tangle-fringed sea loch with the majesty of the hills reflecting from its still waters . |
| 4 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 5 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 6 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 7 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 8 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 9 | Especially when they come from a long way , away . |
| 10 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 11 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |