Example sentences of "[adv prt] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 2 | Voices echoed flatly down the long hall . |
| 3 | The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 6 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 7 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 8 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 9 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 10 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |
| 11 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |
| 12 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 13 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |
| 14 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 15 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 16 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 17 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 18 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 19 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 20 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 21 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 22 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 23 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 24 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 25 | There are long sightlines and high lamp posts , but these give way after rebuilding ( Figure 6.4 ) to pedestrian-scale poles , a tree planted in the road as a slowing device ( marked by reflective posts to aid night visibility ) and changes in paving colours to break up the long vista . |
| 26 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 27 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 28 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 29 | She was concentrating on the speed and length which her stride might attain as she hurried up the long slope . |
| 30 | Reluctantly , he willed himself to turn and go back … back up the long slope , towards the sound of his beloved Pam 's voice which was still calling to him incessantly . |