Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its shadow , in a square of orange brickwork part hidden by the long grass , stood a circular pool . |
| 2 | Her kiss at the cottage gate left my mind occupied during the long walk back to the farm . |
| 3 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 4 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 5 | Perhaps the attitude developed during a long period of established practice and little change . |
| 6 | It involves an arduous ten kilometre run preceded by a long assault course , against the clock , finishing with a shoot on the firing range . |
| 7 | In the light from the lamp the child blinked his weary eyes , his question muffled by a long noisy yawn . |
| 8 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 9 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 10 | Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long , narrow green . |
| 11 | A window opened with a long pole . |
| 12 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 13 | Their gaze locked for a long moment as he pulled the towel from his neck and flung it over a rail , then , suddenly embarrassed , she looked away . |
| 14 | The half ended with a long lob from the LOI midfield and on to it runs Dave Tilson with a beautiful header which left Beeney stranded . |
| 15 | The ground floor consisted of stables , coach-houses , tackrooms and storehouses , while above , in addition to apartments occupied by unmarried male outdoor staff , was a room known as the Long Room . |
| 16 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 17 | The Duke arranged for a long avenue Or lime trees to be planted alongside a driveway leading from the main road that ran westward from London ( Chiswick High Road ) and sweeping into his Chiswick House grounds and , despite having been cut in two by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension , it still remains as Dukes Avenue . |
| 18 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 19 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 20 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |
| 21 | This consists of a heavy studded ball suspended on a long chain hanging from a pole . |
| 22 | At Montego Bay there was an overall shed backed by a long building with an elaborate tower . |
| 23 | The victor settled in the long grass , wings outspread to show the four pairs of conspicuous circle ‘ eyes ’ , scenting the air to attract a female , and to warn off males . |
| 24 | The field stretched in a long oblong down the valley side , filling their eyes . |
| 25 | Sources of income and wealth had rapidly diversified as the economy developed over the long eighteenth century , so a graduated tax on incomes was a logical development to collect revenue from a merchant and manufacturing class which had hardly been as heavily burdened as either the landowners or the poor consumers . |
| 26 | A historical theory must validate itself against a future whose demand , ultimately , is the redemption of the democratic claim buried within the long struggles for and by ‘ the people ’ |
| 27 | Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer , a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid . |
| 28 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 29 | So , instead of a long run of one opera followed by a long run of another , operas would only be performed perhaps twice in succession and then not again for two or three weeks , during which other works would be given . |
| 30 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |