Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun shone on the long road to the south . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 3 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 4 | This consists of a heavy studded ball suspended on a long chain hanging from a pole . |
| 5 | ‘ The bad effects of island driving on the long sentences were not caused by an increase in the number of false alarm seeds . |
| 6 | I looked past Robin-Anne to where the moon 's path gleamed on the long waves , and then I glanced forward and saw another belt of silver , but this one diffuse and hazy , showing where the first crepuscular light seeped over the world 's grey edge . |
| 7 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |