Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] a long " in BNC.

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1 He had given the star a long fiery tail and surrounded it with darts of reflected light .
2 Are the present problems unusual or has the client a long history of similar difficulties ?
3 Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town .
4 Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them .
5 The Mock Turtle was in the middle of a very sad song when they all heard a shout a long way away : ‘ It 's beginning ! ’
6 The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists .
7 Any discomfort as a result of this will be mentally connected with pain and it will take the horse a long time to forget both physically and mentally .
8 Er yeah , it 's gon na take the staff a long time to know all the names
9 It means they often have to fly the ball a long way in the air with very little run , depending , of course , on where the flag is .
10 Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be .
11 No one was certain whether or not this would have the desired effect but Party Politics produced a tremendous performance to win the Greenall Chase at Haydock , taking the lead a long way out and running on strongly .
12 It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other .
13 The recession of the 1870s was shallow , but one that took the economy a long time to climb out of .
14 The doctor folded his arms and gave the men a long , hard stare .
15 It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom .
16 The health ministry could have ended the problem a long time ago — it 's one of the biggest scandals in public health at the moment .
17 Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness .
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