Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 2 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 3 | ‘ It takes most soaps quite a long time to establish themselves in the favour of the audience . |
| 4 | I do n't know what to think parked cars the of a big if I can see a parked car there a long way in front of me I go I am park that car so it |
| 5 | We went back , past the hall down a long , stone passageway to Peckle 's chamber . |
| 6 | It took Corps rather a long time to adjust , I believe . |
| 7 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 8 | Instead unemployment in January was the highest for ten years and economic recovery still a long way off . |
| 9 | It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them . |
| 10 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |
| 11 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 12 | Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago . |
| 13 | A minute later a long ball by Hendry was flicked on by Shearer and Wegerle beat Dublin to stab the ball past James . |
| 14 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 15 | The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber . |
| 16 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 17 | A hundred yards ahead a long line of men trotted slowly across the scarred earth towards some shattered trees and broken walls . |
| 18 | The village was four miles away , the walk back a long climb in the sun . |
| 19 | We are beginning to play some good stuff but I still think we can step u Arsenal were quickly off the mark , going ahead after only five minutes when a long David Seaman clearance found its way to Lee Dixon , whose early pass picked out Alan Smith . |