Example sentences of "see a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went two stops to where Alice had seen a long low bridge along a main road over railway lines . |
| 2 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 3 | The years between 1973 , when Guinness first established a presence in Indonesia , and today have seen a long but seemingly inexorable growth in the Guinness brand . |
| 4 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 5 | ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon . |
| 6 | In the candle-light I could see a long table , in the middle of which was a large yellow shape , with hundreds of insects feeding off it . |
| 7 | It was a very clear day and we could see a long way . |
| 8 | The house seemed to stand in a field near the top of a hill , and they could see a long way . |
| 9 | And erm you could see a long distance with it like that you know , especially if you could see a fox from er about a mile and a half , you could see right going along the rocks in the mountains . |
| 10 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 11 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 12 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 13 | Are you required to be persistent at repeating the same task many times ( phoning sales prospects , for instance ) or persistent in seeing a long , slow project through to the end ( overseeing a two-year training programme , for instance ) ? |
| 14 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 15 | Then , at his feet , almost indistinguishable from the other bits of litter and scraps of rubbish , he saw a long , dirty ribbon of material , covered along its full length with bright red blotches in awkward shapes . |
| 16 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 17 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 18 | Fenella whipped round and saw a long and terrible shadow fall across the floor . |
| 19 | I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge . |
| 20 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 21 | The war of 1689 – 97 saw a long series of such contacts between the belligerents almost from its outbreak ; and the final settlement stemmed from protracted discussions between French and Dutch emissaries in 1694 – 96 . |