Example sentences of "make a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , you 've made a long shadow . |
| 2 | Place each new roll at the end of the spiral until you have made a long , coiled snake shape . |
| 3 | I have made a long ‘ scarf ’ of tension pieces in all the colours , putting all the measurements on my notice board in the knitting room and I use the Knit Leader every time . |
| 4 | And Nyasha and all her family and everybody from the village made a long long line and set off through the forest . |
| 5 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 6 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 7 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 8 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 9 | He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it . |
| 10 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 11 | Mum always made a long list of groceries she needed but some days she bought even more things because there was so much to choose from . |
| 12 | Well they 'd never , they had n't made a long player Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now are n't they ? |
| 13 | Perhaps one day some brave soul will make a long legal journey to the House of Lords and persuade them to change their minds . |
| 14 | A similar effect of , on the one hand , challenging the reader to take up an alert and interpretative role , and , on the other , gratuitously creating an amorphous but strong atmosphere peculiar to the fabliau through the text , is achieved by extensive use of the homonyms vit and con , and com-/con- as a common suffix in the Romance languages : ( I can not make a long tale : in this castle there was a count and with him the countess , his wife , who was a very beautiful and worthy woman ; and there were [ or she had ] more than thirty knights . |
| 15 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 16 | Macmillan made a long and politically emotional appeal for Skybolt 's replacement by Polaris . |
| 17 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 18 | This man Boy lived with went swimming every other day , kept the greying hair on his body clipped shod with an electric razor , made a long phone call to a lover in another city every weekend , and kept a photograph of this lover visible in every room of the flat , even the bathroom , so that he was never out of his sight . |
| 19 | I became especially interested in apes and made a long study of chimpanzees . |
| 20 | I bought some black jersey scalloped with gold embroidery from the market , and made a long , three-tiered , halter-necked gown . |
| 21 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 22 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 23 | Fish-bone paste and heated animal glue made a long process of bonding work , whilst injection moulding and plastics did not exist . |
| 24 | Jasper had apparently become excited and expostulatory , and made a long speech about fascist imperialism . |
| 25 | On 14 February 1961 , the day after news of Lumumba 's death was released , Nkrumah made a long broadcast over Ghanaian radio . |
| 26 | The headmistress made a long and patently truthful speech about how they would miss Stephanie , and a brief speech about Frederica 's outstanding good fortune . |
| 27 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 28 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 29 | Parkin made a long sigh to give himself time to think . |
| 30 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |