Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 2 | He kept the shoulders stiff and he rolled a little , like a sailor back from a long voyage . |
| 3 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 4 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 5 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |