Example sentences of "[pron] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 2 | So it came as no surprise that the first chants of ‘ Flashman out ’ were heard just two minutes into a contest in which the long ball was essential in atrocious conditions . |
| 3 | Rules deal with such things as the use of Hansard and the extent to which the long title can be used in interpretation . |
| 4 | Further delays could have a serious effects on Army plans to introduce a fleet of gunship anti-tank helicopters , for which the long range Trigat is intended to be the primary weapon . |
| 5 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 6 | The Old Library , of which the long Room forms the main part , was built between 1712 and 1732 . |
| 7 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 8 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 9 | And to warn him the long knives were out . |
| 10 | All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat . |
| 11 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 12 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 13 | you could do it the long round , now I think you 're okay on those . |
| 14 | That is what the long book of Deuteronomy deals with . |
| 15 | Amnesty knows , for example , what the long term pattern of abuse is in a country : the known torture methods , the likely victims , the agencies regularly implicated in violations . |
| 16 | ‘ But nobody knows what the long term risks of eating irradiated food will be . |
| 17 | While in the short and medium term ( up to 3 years ) such an approach does not seem to compromise the results of transplantation , what the long term effects of such an approach will be are unclear . |
| 18 | So I 'm not quite sure what the long term connection with er talk |
| 19 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |