Example sentences of "[adv] [art] long [noun] [prep] " 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 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 3 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 4 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 7 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 14 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 15 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 16 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 17 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 18 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 19 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 20 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 21 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 22 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 23 | There , as a mid-wife explains , he is standing on his head , whiling away the long hours of labour with yoga practice . |
| 24 | Southwards the long arms of Isambard himself were stretched to receive them ; the fire died on their heels after that brief flare , and left them on the points of English swords . |
| 25 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 26 | When it came , what a bore — no beer , no fancy cheroots , just a long discussion about the validity of putting Sham 69 on the cover . |
| 27 | it 's just a long drive over there |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's not love , it 's just a long series of tactics . ’ |
| 29 | And be especially careful with formulations of the kind illustrated in the examples below ; do not be misled by a direct interrogative — the answer is never just a long version of " yes " or " no " : |
| 30 | Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines . |