Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 2 | Assuming that its purpose has been determined , once the machine arrives there are several steps that can be taken to maintain its good condition and ensure a long life . |
| 3 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 4 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 5 | The Corporal placed his Bren gun on the window-sill and fired a long burst at the sniper 's position . |
| 6 | The writing was on the wall , however , and the fateful day eventually arrived in 1906 , when the last of the Eastington mills finally closed , putting large numbers out of work and ending a long history of cloth making in the parish . |
| 7 | 35 MINUTES : Ipswich regained the lead when Guentchev , thriving on having better support up front , picked up a ball from Whelan in his own half and sent a long ball for Goddard to chase through the middle . |
| 8 | ‘ Congratulations , both of you , ’ Belinda said sincerely , then Andrew proposed a rambling , outrageous toast and drank a long gulp of champagne with pretended sophistication . |
| 9 | then said that he found other difficulties in Lord Roskill 's speech in Reg. v. Morris , and after setting out the facts of the case and quoting a long passage from that speech , at p. 332 , and also the answer to the certified question he continued , at pp. 283–284 : |
| 10 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 11 | He was on his hands and knees and , although his leg hurt him , he moved quickly across the deck and took a long knife from among some ropes . |
| 12 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 13 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 14 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 15 | I sank on to the bucket and took a long pull at the coffee . |
| 16 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 17 | We … turn to the right and find a long line of Loose Boxes extending to the Forge … |
| 18 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 19 | But he accepted the proffered wine and took a long draught , letting a thoughtful silence fall . |
| 20 | I went back to my room and took a long bath . |
| 21 | He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole |
| 22 | Some twenty minutes later , at about a quarter to five , he is seen on the third floor of the Polytechnique , in one of the corridors lined with student lockers , pressed against the wall and holding a long object in the green garbage bag , with a smaller white plastic bag by his side . |
| 23 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 24 | Buck strode up to his ball and had a long consultation with his caddy . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 26 | The other picked up his drink and took a long swallow , watching her over the rim of the tankard . |
| 27 | A pupil of Dent Grammar School , Sedgwick became one of the founders of the science of geology and had a long career as Professor of Geology at Cambridge University , where he was buried in 1873 at the age of ninety-eight . |
| 28 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 29 | She cleaned off her smudged make-up , filled the bath and had a long soak . |
| 30 | When the secretary had at last left them , she lay back in her chair and gave a long sigh of exasperation . |