Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
2 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
3 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
4 | But questions remain over the long term benefits of the orphans ' visits . |
5 | One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time . |
6 | Cut out a long strip of coloured paper and cut a scalloped edge along one side . |
7 | Benstede pursed his lips and let out a long sigh . |
8 | She suddenly let out a long sigh and swept her hair from her face . |
9 | ‘ There is enough to do , ’ he said , and let out a long breath . |
10 | Folly let out a long breath of relief . |
11 | Reluctantly , he willed himself to turn and go back … back up the long slope , towards the sound of his beloved Pam 's voice which was still calling to him incessantly . |
12 | Annoyance flickers across his face as I pass along the long trestle tables finding nothing to my satisfaction . |
13 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
14 | Mould a very little black food colouring into some spare fondant to create a light marbled grey effect , and roll out a long strip to place along each side of the road . |
15 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
16 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
17 | Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way . |
18 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
19 | The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way . |
20 | They go back a long way . |
21 | The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way . |
22 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
23 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
24 | The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century . |
25 | We go back a long way . ’ |
26 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
27 | Such technology is the product of a company with roots that go back a long way in the history of sportswear . |
28 | Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ? |
29 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
30 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |