Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace .
2 The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets .
3 There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic .
4 The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right .
5 I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down .
6 I imagine that you would also be aware that the only reason the Pentagon produces such figures is to extract from a long suffering American tax-payer billions upon billions of extra dollars in order to pursue its own lunatic military fantasies .
7 Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains .
8 Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 .
9 This low level of activity indicates a lack of extensive interior melting , or a thick lithosphere , or a lack of stress in the lithosphere , or some combination of all three , all of which can result from a long history of low internal temperatures .
10 Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb .
11 Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb .
12 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 .
13 His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University .
14 The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs .
15 There is no corresponding requirement for bistability , which occurs for , and thus actually benefits from a long time constant , since the gain is : hence materials such as semiconductors and liquid crystals with small are ideal for bistability but useless for Ikeda instability .
16 She picked one , and held it to her face , and in the lights which shone from the long windows of the house , Edouard saw that the colour of the flower , that rich deep red shot through with gold , was the colour of her hair .
17 The outcome of that study , however , was markedly influenced by a lack of compliance ( eight of the 20 patients withdrew from the longer course ) .
18 When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table .
19 A zoom lens is the visual equivalent of a continuous gear shift in a car : merely by turning a handle , the operator can move from a long lens , giving a narrow view but a deep-focus telescopic shot of the subject , to a short , wide-angle lens , with a wide view .
20 I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth .
21 ‘ Though speaking from the longest distance , ’ wrote the editor of the Highbury Quadrant Church magazine , ‘ Mr Dawson , as on previous occasions , was best heard of all .
22 He sat next to me and I wrinkled my nose at the sweaty odour emanating from the long , black , food-stained gown he wore .
23 However , this source suffers from the long time gap between censuses , and so more detailed and more frequent information on changing land use within the forest still has to rely on ad hoc surveys .
24 Britain was still recovering from the long hard years of the second World War and the population had long felt the pinch of rationing and having to make do .
25 Institutions , customs , political and cultural traditions stemming from a long pagan past , were still very much alive in it .
26 Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation .
27 The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off .
28 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
29 This led to a two mile chase on my bicycle following his refusal to answer my questions and a final on the deserted marshes where large quantities of tobacco had to be recovered from the long grass in a grey December dawn .
30 Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding .
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