Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walk the long dark pier that bends |
| 2 | I remember the long faces in the Tontine Coffee House at Glasgow Cross on the morning of 27 January 1783 when the news broke . |
| 3 | I lift the long curls from my head and brush some life back into my flattened hair . |
| 4 | I love the long bare hills with just the odd clump of trees . |
| 5 | I think the long term results of this are entirely good , but in the short term there 's going to be major instability , making life possibly quite nasty for everyone . |
| 6 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Actually , if you take the , if you , if you make the long list and then say to the client , well now , what can you do without . |
| 8 | Once you have seen which publishers might be interested in your novel , you begin the long process of sending it to one after another . |
| 9 | Well I 'm not sure really it did n't seem to go to good on the cast iron nails you know the long ones |
| 10 | and you go the long stay car park and |
| 11 | He says that there may be a few who go the long way around , but not many . |
| 12 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 13 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 14 | till you reach the long room : pale green damask |
| 15 | Because you work , you work the long days |
| 16 | In this study , we report the long term results of dilatation in these patients . |
| 17 | In this report we assess the long term ( 5–7 year ) survival , exercise capacity , perceived quality of life , and employment in these 18 patients . |
| 18 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 19 | As we begin the long curve and haul out of the city , rain spots the windshield . |
| 20 | We go the long way ; who knows how long it will be before we come this way again ? |
| 21 | Then there 's what we call the long tour , which has got seven characters from the house 's history on it . |
| 22 | Following this we have the long period of isostatic emergence , rapid weathering of the new mountains with the formation of molasse-type deposits , widespread red bed sedimentation and also perhaps a period of glaciation , before peneplanation , widespread marine transgressions and the recommencement of the cycle in new troughs . |
| 23 | it costs me a bomb for phone calls to them cos they put the long , wrong address on |
| 24 | Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’ |
| 25 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 26 | Yeah that 's the final he 's got three , they 've got two , I think they 've got two of each before that actually and that 's the wide lane that 's two lanes so that 's the erm , when they do the long one |
| 27 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 28 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |