Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 2 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 3 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 4 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
| 5 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 6 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 7 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 8 | Picking up the long gun , Doyle ran his finger along the barrel and then held it out to the Hare-woman . |
| 9 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 10 | New occasions of conflict were now appearing and would eventually break up the long peace , and as this became clearer so did the essentially competitive nature of the European system . |
| 11 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 12 | And they did ; all flattened and crouched , creeping low in the grass ; quite unlike the sprightly reed with its flashy habit of fanning out the long tail to show off white outer tail feathers . |
| 13 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 14 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 15 | Lisa Buckingham writes : Chemical companies have finally secured insurance to help them pay the costs of cleaning up the long term damage they do to the environment . |
| 16 | Reluctantly , he willed himself to turn and go back … back up the long slope , towards the sound of his beloved Pam 's voice which was still calling to him incessantly . |
| 17 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 18 | It is now known , however , that it is made up of basaltic rocks , derived indirectly from peridotite , and erupted by volcanic action along the ridge itself , building up the long submarine mountain range and giving rise to the relatively few volcanoes which poke their heads above sea level . |
| 19 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
| 20 | Well a great situation Scott Gemmell followed up the long ball picked up the as they ran at the defence and then he 's committed to play it and then he 's just just slid it in nicely for Kingsley Black on his left side . |
| 21 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 22 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 23 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 24 | However , this is not always the best direction , because boards running down the longest area of a room will make it seem even longer and narrower . |
| 25 | And your own personal ‘ diata ’ will help you to build up the long term eating habits that are necessary for good health . |
| 26 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 27 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 28 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 29 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 30 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |