Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall
2 Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances .
3 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
4 Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch .
5 Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows .
6 ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’
7 I see him back in the long term as county captain .
8 ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’
9 They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance .
10 She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown .
11 E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it .
12 When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side .
13 So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run .
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