Example sentences of "[noun] make a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 2 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 3 | On 14 February 1961 , the day after news of Lumumba 's death was released , Nkrumah made a long broadcast over Ghanaian radio . |
| 4 | And Nyasha and all her family and everybody from the village made a long long line and set off through the forest . |
| 5 | There is no need to make a long speech , though . |
| 6 | Fish-bone paste and heated animal glue made a long process of bonding work , whilst injection moulding and plastics did not exist . |
| 7 | The door closed , with yellow light from the kerosene lamp making a long crack on the floor . |
| 8 | Spread the rest on to the biscuits , then pile the biscuits on top of each other to make a long roll . |
| 9 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 10 | Parkin made a long sigh to give himself time to think . |
| 11 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |
| 12 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 13 | The embalmers laid her flat on a long wooden table , and one of them , the master , took a sharp flint knife to make a long incision low down in her side . |
| 14 | Between 1947 and 1955 a man called Will Cowan made a long series of short documentaries on the popular Jazz artists of the era . |
| 15 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 16 | Macmillan made a long and politically emotional appeal for Skybolt 's replacement by Polaris . |
| 17 | The headmistress made a long and patently truthful speech about how they would miss Stephanie , and a brief speech about Frederica 's outstanding good fortune . |
| 18 | Duvall rejoined his efforts and the edge of the cabinet caught against one of the floor tiles making a long , keening screech . |
| 19 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 20 | Perhaps a landscape is too remote or unsettled weather makes a long painting session impossible . |
| 21 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 22 | Some of the other men had been busy , tying together ropes and halters to make a long leash . |