Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] come [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 2 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 3 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 4 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 5 | Especially when they come from a long way , away . |