Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 2 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 3 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 4 | I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth . |
| 5 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |