Example sentences of "[noun sg] through [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Frank Buchman , who kept on this course through a long life of battle , used to tell me . |
| 2 | The shudder of the bigger wave sent a shock wave through the long hull , and I laughed aloud with the pleasure of it . |
| 3 | Light was admitted during the daytime through the long framed windows fitted with moulded glass , which could be seen stretching from end to end of the van under the cornice . |
| 4 | But that night she had knelt in her cell through the long , dark hours , begging the Almighty to forgive her for her envy and sadness . |
| 5 | Pechorin is a cold-hearted , stylish fatalist , experimentalist , existentialist and divided man , a traveller , gambler , heart-breaker and forgetter of old friends , who loves to ride ‘ a spirited horse through the long grass against a desert wind ’ . |
| 6 | With perfect buoyancy we lay in the current , drifting at no mean speed through the long fronds of kelp , angling our bodies to follow the curves of the bottom . |
| 7 | He has , of course , come into recent prominence through a long association with the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 8 | At the end of the investitures I was joined by my family and we walked to the exit through the long corridors joined by small flights of deep-carpeted stairs . |
| 9 | He remembered how Bigwig had chased Hawkbit through the long grass , forgetting the quarrel of the previous night in the joy of their arrival . |
| 10 | Among these are managements who , by exercising careful control of purchasing , pricing and marketing , have maintained market share through the long recession . |
| 11 | Bigwig and Hawkbit chased each other through the long grass . |
| 12 | At first they giggled and ran calling to each other through the long grasses , timothy and cocksfoot , clover swaying unsteadily under the weight of bumblebees , clumsy like clowns blundering across the meadow . |
| 13 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 14 | The play follows six women as they laugh and work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year on the farm . |
| 15 | In the desolate landscape of East Lothian and the border farms of the 1860s six women laugh , work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year of farmwork . |
| 16 | Encouraged by his sister Julie , a night-club singer , he became an extra in films and graduated his way through a long succession of walk-ons to become a featured player in B-pictures . |
| 17 | Stunningly visual and full of rich language , Sue Glover 's funny and moving new play follows six women as they laugh and work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year on the farm . |