Example sentences of "long and [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sipped her tea and looked so long and thoughtfully into the fire that Carrie began to think she had forgotten her . |
| 2 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 3 | Standing alone in this pool of moonlight , he puts his thumb and forefinger into the corners of his mouth and , staring out across the houses and the fields and the river valley to the stark moonlit mountains , whistles long and loud into the night . |
| 4 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 5 | Carew drew long and hard on the cigarette . |
| 6 | I would suggest they look long and hard at the report they have written and even longer and harder in the mirror . |
| 7 | Montgomery stared long and hard at the object . |
| 8 | Sergeant Joe looked long and hard at the fox of Newington Butts . |
| 9 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 10 | Because there would n't be the traffic generation , because you could although they argued long and hard over the ability of service vehicles to service the site . |
| 11 | It is a question Michael Joseph is likely to ponder long and hard over the weeks to come . |
| 12 | I reckon you 'd have to look long and hard through the history of the hot hatch to find a more unconvincing sporting package for your money — a hefty £10,990 in standard form . |
| 13 | Spinal cord injuries have cruel way of leaving your mind intact so that you can think long and hard about the way you wanted to live ’ . |
| 14 | I thought long and hard about the monster 's words . |
| 15 | I thought long and hard about the monster 's words . |
| 16 | The ramifications explain why large organisations are thinking long and hard about the introduction of any new technology into the office . |
| 17 | They wave long and hard from the porch . |