Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 2 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 3 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 4 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 5 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 6 | One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time . |
| 7 | Cut out a long strip of coloured paper and cut a scalloped edge along one side . |
| 8 | ‘ There is enough to do , ’ he said , and let out a long breath . |
| 9 | Benstede pursed his lips and let out a long sigh . |
| 10 | Lucinda ran her tongue round her suddenly dry lips and let out a long , slow whistle . |
| 11 | Then , satisfied that the French would check their advance till they were certain no picquet line waited in ambush , he stared westwards towards the clouds and let out a long heavy breath . |
| 12 | The Doctor let out a long slow breath , and considered his options , since even if he succeeded in stopping Mait , there was always the risk of someone else finding this place the next time the stars were in the correct alignment . |
| 13 | Folly let out a long breath of relief . |
| 14 | She suddenly let out a long sigh and swept her hair from her face . |
| 15 | The patron let out the long slow whistle of a kettle coming to the boil . |
| 16 | She ran from him , nightmare panic making her breathing and heartbeat echo down the long tree-lined path until she saw the moon shining through a stained-glass window of the garden of Eden . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 19 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
| 20 | Then roll out a long thin strip of icing , about 5x15cm ( 2x6inches ) , and use to wrap around and cover the ‘ head ’ . |
| 21 | Mould a very little black food colouring into some spare fondant to create a light marbled grey effect , and roll out a long strip to place along each side of the road . |
| 22 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 23 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 24 | We go up a long , but steepish , slope and pause to catch our breath and share the experience . |
| 25 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
| 26 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 27 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
| 28 | They go back a long way . |
| 29 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
| 30 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |