Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] through [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | The cows moved slowly through the long green grass . |
2 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
3 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
4 | With a path to walk on through the long ‘ now ’ of summer . |
5 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
6 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
7 | The final decision as to what to count is actually the solution to the problem in hand ; this decision is taken only through a long series of complicated exploratory maneuvers ’ ( Labov 1972a : 82 ) . |
8 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |