Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 2 | It looks like a long hard season for Civil Service , who have lost Steffi Magowan and Alex Battey to university across the water , and newly promoted Knock . |
| 3 | " A multitude of pillars and white domes , clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light . " |
| 4 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 5 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 6 | She now knelt down by Robbie Felton 's side and tentatively , she put her hand inside his thick blue cloth jacket , then drew in a long slow breath when she could feel the beating of his heart . |
| 7 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 8 | I imagine that you would also be aware that the only reason the Pentagon produces such figures is to extract from a long suffering American tax-payer billions upon billions of extra dollars in order to pursue its own lunatic military fantasies . |
| 9 | A family likeness can be seen among all the boys , every face dominated by a long curved nose . |
| 10 | In the light from the lamp the child blinked his weary eyes , his question muffled by a long noisy yawn . |
| 11 | Lawyers , prepared for a long High Court battle , are now working on a settlement which could bring an abject apology from BA . |
| 12 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 13 | Yet there can be no room for complacency after shock home defeats by Watford and Barnsley defeats that were all the more disappointing because they came after a long unbeaten home run . |
| 14 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 15 | We have here a wide , flat valley filled with sediment passing into a long parallel-sided sea reminiscent of many ancient sedimentary troughs . |
| 16 | They came in a long winding string of wagons , horses , barking dogs , dancing children and donkeys . |
| 17 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 18 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 19 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 20 | I was treated like a long lost brother ! |
| 21 | However , if they are both read in close conjunction to each other , readers will experience strong emotions combined with a beautiful story , that they will remember for a long long time . |
| 22 | The film opened on a long lingering shot of sponsors ' lorries . |
| 23 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 24 | A song that we hear as a long light squeal . |
| 25 | Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer , a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid . |
| 26 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 27 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 28 | There was a train waiting at the Gare Maritime of Ostend with a through carriage to Berlin , reached by a long overnight journey across the flat plains of northern Europe . |
| 29 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 30 | Although an operation on his upper jaw at Leicester Infirmary in about 1882 had removed most of the bony ‘ trunk ’ protruding from his mouth , his appearance was so repulsive that he could only go outside heavily disguised in a long black cloak , a peaked cap , and a mask . |