Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] long " in BNC.

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1 Other specialist methods of capture including the shrimp , or push , net , the drop-net , and rod and line fishing with barbless hooks , will be dealt with in a later article , as will the special methods of transporting the captives home on long journeys on a hot summer 's day , which present special problems , which need to be overcome .
2 Below Dalrachney the river levels out into long , steady-flowing , deep pools , interspersed by rough , shallow , shingle banks .
3 ’ I met some great gals out in Long Island , ’ says Michelle , slipping into suburban Angela drawl .
4 It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing
5 To make bouquets , stick sugar flowers on to long cones of green fondant with royal icing .
6 It was a sprawling split-level place where you could take on board anything from a glass of beer to a four-course dinner plus the right wines at each course and with about as much choice about where to sit : at tables in the middle at booths and alcoves at the sides on the bar stools on other stools up against long shelves .
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