Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 2 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 3 | He did n't think of her as often now , except perhaps on a long weekend when he was off-duty ; the rest of the time he had things to occupy his mind . |
| 4 | James Menzies and the McLaggans , riding on horses , led the rest away on the long climb of the hill to Dunskiag , a gaunt treeless place where the owner lived without a woman and three great staghounds with long coarse hair slavered to get at them , wrenching their chains . |
| 5 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 6 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 7 | And I think that was the situation for a lot of people , that erm if they did n't take the the flat that was offered to them , then they would be virtually erm either still on a long waiting list or homeless . |
| 8 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 9 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 10 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 11 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 12 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 13 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 14 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 15 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 16 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 17 | Letting his breath out on a long sigh , he changed his mind . |
| 18 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 19 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 20 | Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . |
| 21 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 22 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 23 | Jules took a piece of pandoli and chewed contentedly on the long biscuit . |
| 24 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 25 | Having been off all winter , we are now on the long road back to full fitness , and my main worry , having recently started trotting , is finding somewhere where the going is n't too hard . |
| 26 | All went well on the long trip to the Jebel mountains and from there the intrepid raiding party set off for their target . |
| 27 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 28 | It had been the same with Road Works Ahead on the Long Drive . |
| 29 | Harvey got a piece of canvas out of the front of the car and then pike took his overcoat off and they wrapped the coat into the canvas and strapped it up very tight on a long strap , the other end of which they fixed to the belt of Ralph pike 's overalls . |
| 30 | It was certainly on a long lists of shortlists . |