Example sentences of "[verb] a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outdoor Action writer Paul Traynor is tackling a long backpacking trip along Italy 's northern Apennines — the country 's spinal mountain chain . |
| 2 | Officials , wary of the effects the soggy going could have on horses tackling a long hilly course , have taken the precaution of cutting the fences from 38 to 34 and have also slightly reduced the length of the course . |
| 3 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 4 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 5 | Rostov drew a long shuddering breath . |
| 6 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 7 | They drew a long covert upwind between Queen Hoo Hall and Bramfield . |
| 8 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 9 | If the Government listens to tomorrow 's debate in the House of Lords , the region so-called new age travellers can a expect a long hot summer of evictions . |
| 10 | He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants . |
| 11 | She wore another severe suit , grey this time over a white blouse , but perhaps in honour of the occasion had added a long twisted rope of coral , pearls and crystal . |
| 12 | Fortunately his wife , whom some of the family have never met , nevertheless writes a long newsy letter every Christmas . |
| 13 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 14 | After a while they pulled up outside a large concrete hotel , not quite finished , incorporating a long cruelly-lit restaurant , almost empty , which faced the road . |
| 15 | It 's an excellent under-body insulator and has a long effective life . |
| 16 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 17 | The Bangor event , the richest 10K road race in Ireland , has a long Kenyan tradition . |
| 18 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 19 | In Holland , STIVA has a long established reputation for helping young people to drink responsibly . |
| 20 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 21 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 22 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 23 | Her skin is blue-black , she has a long red tongue , and snakes twine about her body . |
| 24 | It has a long historical lineage but the most sophisticated explanation is that given by Diplock L.J. , as he then was . |
| 25 | Called Myrmecobius , it has a long thin snout for poking into ants ' nests , and a long sticky tongue with which it mops up its prey . |
| 26 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 27 | The body is long and slender , with a pointed head and it has a long pointed snout that forms a ‘ bill ’ . |
| 28 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 29 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 30 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |