Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect .
2 Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team .
3 JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park .
4 I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there .
5 A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics .
6 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 .
7 In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target .
8 When she fluttered the long lashes of her baby blue eyes she had the timeless charm of Olive Oyl or Betty Boop .
9 I stroked the long handle of the trowel , wondering if my father had a name for that stick of his .
10 The Currabinny Community Association then provided a long list of other sources of responsible relevant information .
11 As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia .
12 Zacco drew a long breath through pinched nostrils .
13 As soon as the train started , I drew a long breath of relief .
14 His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying .
15 Others described a long tail of various colours streaming behind a big light .
16 There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character .
17 Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers .
18 This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn .
19 One Frenchman had taken his carbine from his holster and now tried a long shot at Sharpe , but the bullet fluttered harmlessly overhead .
20 He trudged the long road to Keswick or often to Wythburn where the carrier , Jackson , would take him to Keswick when the Exhibition was held annually .
21 Kate Melville and Sue d'Argy Smith , whose daughters left the Church , as so many do , just before they became nubile , each took a hand and gave it a sharp pull , and over their heads came the long arms of Gordon the Bachelor , whose fingers stroked my hair , as countless other key personnel in the body of Christendom , South Wimbledon , stroked , shoved , pulled and all but carried me towards the stage on which I was supposed to pour out the secrets of my heart .
22 ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle .
23 Under this leadership the school of geology at Cambridge spawned a long list of well-known geologists who served in universities , geological surveys , and museums in Britain , India , South Africa , and other countries .
24 Suddenly , the Junkers belched a long tongue of red flame , straightened out for a moment and then spun down into the water .
25 Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked .
26 All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment .
27 The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes .
28 The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search .
29 It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me .
30 It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived .
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