Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 2 | For shareholders in Hard Rock Cafe , originally Harvard 's best OTC stock , a perk was permission to jump the long queue outside the Hard Rock Cafe off Piccadilly . |
| 3 | Our study shows the long term spontaneous resolution of severe glue ear in children . |
| 4 | The overriding benefit , however , is its readiness to take the long view . |
| 5 | The booth to the left of the entrance houses the Long Room Conservation Project . |
| 6 | From the early 1920s Chiang devoted much of his attention to suppressing his communist rivals rather than forming a united front with them to resist the Japanese , but they established a strong base in the northwest following the Long March of 1934 . |
| 7 | Some thought it was an attempt to make the long hitters go for the green across the water so they made it twenty-five paces shorter . |
| 8 | When the site became available , the University took the opportunity to purchase the long lease for development , both as a public amenity and as accommodation for the Departments of Art History and Music . |
| 9 | The difference from RP can be appreciated quite easily by reference to the pair can , ca n't : can has the long back vowel predicted by the single nasal environment , whereas can ‘ t has the short front vowel predicted by the nasal + voiceless obstruent environment ( compare also dance , ranch , etc. , which are short , front ) . |
| 10 | Just so , perhaps , are ice ages the long winters , the scourers of the planet , the deep sleep required for nature 's recovery . |
| 11 | It is of no consequence once it is accepted that the God to serve humanity originated at the moment that life first became manifest , and combined with the material of the universe to start the long process of producing living creatures with the capacity to enjoy life and all that that involves . |
| 12 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
| 13 | The judge said the long sentence should serve as a warning to others tempted to join the illegal trade in exotic birds . |
| 14 | There have been hiccups — the UK government decision to introduce eye tests , for example , brought a bulge in demand which has been followed with a corresponding flat patch — but the group reckons the long term is promising as ageing populations and greater access to markets such as India and China boost demand . |
| 15 | There have been hiccups — the UK government decision to introduce eye tests , for example , brought a bulge in demand which has been followed with a corresponding flat patch — but the group reckons the long term is promising as ageing populations and greater access to markets such as India and China boost demand . |
| 16 | Then his eyes , red-rimmed from weeping , widened dementedly and he lunged from his place swinging the long blade of his coupe-coupe high above his head . |
| 17 | Beside the railway the breeze rustled the long grass . |
| 18 | These regulations which will give effect at the European council directive of December the sixth will of course alter the long standing position in the U K whereby only British and Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland are entitled to vote in European parliamentary elections . |
| 19 | Nor does the performance seem anything but studio bound , at least until a more involving Act 3 , as compared with any of the sets listed above , two made in the theatre , the other exhibiting the long experience of Furtwängler in the work . |
| 20 | Not a night to attempt the long walk to Achnacarry . |
| 21 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 22 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 23 | Clarkson 's account of his entry into his antislavery role stressed the long period of crisis in which he indecisively debated with himself and James Ramsay what to do . |
| 24 | In Cyprus , it is served on Easter morning to break the long Lent fast . |
| 25 | Scheherezade begins the long series of tales that constitute The Arabian Nights , so successfully stimulating the King 's curiosity to hear more that he constantly defers the order for her execution . |
| 26 | Nor does it show how the international sphere affects the long cycle ; no consideration is given to how the international structure of industry affects innovation and the propagation of long waves or how innovation affects industry 's internationalization . |
| 27 | Then that would sort of feed itself , but you had to have one man feeding the the scrapping machine and another man with a shovel , pulling away the the the the the the scrapped at the side and then you had to have another man feeding the long hay into the chaff cutter . |
| 28 | Clearly we are meant by the storyteller to understand the long trumpet blast on the seventh day of the siege of Jericho as heralding an appearance of God to his people rivalling the great theophany of Sinai . |
| 29 | Inside the building Joshua stood in line with the multitude to endure the long wait and the thorough search , the emptying of pockets and the impudent fumblings of security . |
| 30 | Specific initiatives include a back pain clinic to start in the summer to clear the long list of patients waiting for treatment . |