Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 2 | I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers . |
| 3 | Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs . |
| 4 | The good effects of war can be detected only in the long term , and there were bad effects too , while the consequences of coalition for the party were immediate and almost wholly negative . |
| 5 | Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment . |
| 6 | Why must her blonde hair , bleached now by the long summer 's light to a ravishing pallor , be chopped so harshly ? |
| 7 | I should have tried harder at the long jump at school |