Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Like rearlights away up the long road
2 Depending on the piece of mud , you might have to take one club more with a long fairway shot , and give the shot a little extra force in the short game .
3 He groaned , and shifted a little , tantalising her with the answering flicker of his tongue over the heavy swell of her breast , before he took her mouth again in a long and hungry kiss .
4 He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] .
5 She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway .
6 But I mean these erm do it yourself places have been open for , well defied the law now for a long long time have n't they ?
7 The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good .
8 She moved towards a seat and regarded the girl steadily for a long moment .
9 The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 .
10 These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) .
11 Whatever war was being fought below them was taking place either at the long range of bombardment or the short range of a brawl .
12 ‘ Oh , no — only three messages apart from a long one that concerns you , ’ she said with a hint of ill-concealed jubilation .
13 We may not see this place again for a long time . ’
14 But it is an agreement which is " restrictive of trade " in this sense , that it requires a man to give his services and wares to one person only for a long term of years to the exclusion of all others .
15 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 .
16 Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future .
17 As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time .
18 It would become known as the Aladdin Sane Retirement Tour of Great Britain , comprising over 40 appearances and culminating at Hammersmith Odeon for the famous final concert of June 3 , 1973 , when David announced his ‘ retirement ’ and that he would n't perform live concerts again for a long time — not for two or three years at least .
19 Marcus stared into his beer broodingly for a long minute .
20 They argue , on pragmatic grounds , that judges must sometimes act as if people had legal rights , because acting that way will serve society better in the long run .
21 Is the community so anxious that its judges not behave as pragmatists that this " noble lie " will help him serve its true interests better in the long run ?
22 It occurs word medially between two short vowels , between a long and short vowel , or word finally after a long vowel .
23 ‘ Doping makes people so distrustful that if someone jumps two cms longer in a long jump , a cm higher in the pole-vault or lifts 2.5 kgs more than I do , the accusation is there . ’
24 Beside it is a small round table on which can be seen a photograph of my wife and me with our three elder children ; then there is an armchair also with a long seat and a dark-blue dog bed for our two spaniels beside another table with books and magazines .
25 I do n't accept dinner invitations and I have a small snack in my hotel room and go to bed immediately after a long flight .
26 Aha this was a man who had been a joiner there for a long time .
27 ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’
28 ‘ I do n't want to do theatre again for a long time , ’ he said .
29 Fat sticky horse chestnut buds ; coal-black ash buds with green flower clusters in pairs on the branches ; reddish-brown oak buds splitting open to reveal tiny glossy yellow-green leaves : trees were coming to life again after the long winter
30 Joseph had devoured the contents of the book avidly during the long Pacific crossing and had begun reading it again after they left Hong Kong .
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