Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] 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 | We went back , past the hall down a long , stone passageway to Peckle 's chamber . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The village was four miles away , the walk back a long climb in the sun . |