Example sentences of "[adv prt] a length [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four Commandos on the 3″ mortar were still firing their bombs , each as it left the muzzle of the mortar making a distinctive musical sound like someone blowing down a length of drainpipe . |
| 2 | A set of pictures can be hung from ribbons or cords — for example , a set of two or three miniature ovals can be hung down a length of ribbon , with a velvet or silk bow positioned at the top of the strip . |
| 3 | The Three Kings had by then be , en worked along a length of 240 ft. and this could suggest Benson 's Lode . |
| 4 | I watched her expertly snip off a length of trade cotton , then almost run to a shelf and move a fifty-pound sack of flour . |
| 5 | I held his toothbrush , left-handed the way he 'd have done , opened a container of cotton buds , pulled off a length of dental floss , examined a bottle of eardrops . |
| 6 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 7 | Philip picked up the roll of wire and nipped off a length with the cutters . |
| 8 | Jos picked up a length of cane . |
| 9 | Tugging at these I found them fairly firmly embedded , but eventually the mud yielded up a length of chain with the most beautiful padlock on the end of it . |
| 10 | She held one end of a white tape in one hand and measured out a length with the other which was several times the distance from her elbow to the second finger of her hand . |
| 11 | A second explosion blotted out a length of hedge . |
| 12 | Staff will draw out a length of any roll for inspection . |