Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees .
2 He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail .
3 I do n't know what to think parked cars the of a big if I can see a parked car there a long way in front of me I go I am park that car so it
4 There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy .
5 Instead unemployment in January was the highest for ten years and economic recovery still a long way off .
6 It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them .
7 Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked .
8 The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less .
9 Your husband probably senses that you do n't admire or respect him and he obviously does n't trust you , which is why he pulled the drawbridge up a long time ago .
10 A minute later a long ball by Hendry was flicked on by Shearer and Wegerle beat Dublin to stab the ball past James .
11 The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber .
12 The village was four miles away , the walk back a long climb in the sun .
13 This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike .
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