Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweetman paused again , this time to light a long pale blue cigarette with a slim gold lighter . |
| 2 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 3 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 4 | JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness . |
| 5 | The work of the pre-electric era was the work of preservation : drying and smoking meat , making cheese and hard bread to survive a long winter huddled in a chalet above the animals . |
| 6 | Spread the rest on to the biscuits , then pile the biscuits on top of each other to make a long roll . |
| 7 | There really is no better way to spend a long weekend , or indeed an entire week , during winter , than in the warm sun of Portugal 's Algarve , Spain 's Costa del Sol or the cooler — though still very comfortable — French region of Calais . |
| 8 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |
| 9 | There is no worse way to endure a long formal dinner than sitting trussed up and overheated in tight waistcoats and stiff collars . |
| 10 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 11 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |