Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 2 | The clear message sent is that voters have lost faith in existing governing parties that enjoyed riding the long boom of the 1980s , but have no policies for a post-Berlin Wall Europe . |
| 3 | They took some sandwiches and a bottle of cold tea , and they began to cut the long grass in Mr Wood 's biggest field . |
| 4 | She decided to join the long taxi queue . |
| 5 | As eighth reserve for the tournament the chances were slim , but he decided to make the long journey to Crooked Stick , Indiana , on the off-chance . |
| 6 | A : What you want me to tell you is how I , victim of a class-ridden society , managed to escape the long side streets of the outer suburbs and reach the shores of academia . |
| 7 | When everyone first subbed , the local mailer machine always chose to use the long form ( eg ) . |
| 8 | I am particularly pleased that Aunt Alice managed to make the long journey down to Surrey from Aberdeen for this occasion , and we are all delighted that Annabelle 's sister , Sharon , flew all the way from Australia to join us and be such a charming bridesmaid . |
| 9 | She and David planned to spend the long weekend alone in Bristol . |
| 10 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 11 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 12 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 13 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 14 | Caradryel continued to oversee the long retreat from the Old World . |
| 15 | Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden . |
| 16 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 17 | Eleanor told him she understood , kissed him and then left to start the long journey home . |
| 18 | As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County . |
| 19 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 20 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 21 | The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down . |
| 22 | During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye . |
| 23 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 24 | Disability cash pledge set to end the long wait |