Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie ventured to ask when the long , uncomfortably silent walk was over and Water Gypsy was under way once more . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 4 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 5 | They would have to come home the long way round . |
| 6 | Patients were randmly allocated to receive either the long acting somatostatin analogue octreotide ( n=121 ) or isotonic saline intravenously as a placebo ( n= 124 ) . |
| 7 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |