Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | I think the longest one lasted more than half an hour . |
| 7 | No , I 've had 2 other books published er previously by the same publishers , er one was in Berkshire , one was in Hampshire , very much along the same sort of lines , er I think the longest walk I did probably would be about sort of 7 or 8 miles with those , er just as , you know , er the walks in , in , in this particular book are no more than 7 or 8 miles . |
| 8 | I think the way it should be tackled is speak to about it , say that we still believe that y'know it ca n't go on forever obviously it ca n't go on forever because I think the longer it goes on the worse it 'll become in all honesty |
| 9 | I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first . |
| 10 | Starting early , I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur , arriving late in the afternoon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There really is no need to sail more than 300m off the beach ; remember that the further out you sail the longer the swim back in should your equipment break . |
| 13 | Once you have seen which publishers might be interested in your novel , you begin the long process of sending it to one after another . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | The more you ask the longer it gets , Toby . |
| 16 | and you go the long stay car park and |
| 17 | Do n't forget that altitude is also a factor , and the higher you go the longer into the day a slope of spring snow will remain hard . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | You take the longest bit of candle , but be quick . ’ |
| 21 | till you reach the long room : pale green damask |
| 22 | Because you work , you work the long days |
| 23 | Next is the fact that the more dots you have the longer it 's going to take to process them and the more memory you 'll need to hold the bitmap . |
| 24 | In this study , we report the long term results of dilatation in these patients . |
| 25 | In this report we assess the long term ( 5–7 year ) survival , exercise capacity , perceived quality of life , and employment in these 18 patients . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | As we begin the long curve and haul out of the city , rain spots the windshield . |
| 28 | We go the long way ; who knows how long it will be before we come this way again ? |
| 29 | Then there 's what we call the long tour , which has got seven characters from the house 's history on it . |
| 30 | 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 . |