Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 3 | Grasshoppers churred in the long grass . |
| 4 | He dabbled in the long jump until the age of twenty-four and then decided to switch to the sprints . |
| 5 | As they approached down the long corridor she could see George , the sacrificial dummy , slumped over the console : the bait for Forster 's trap . |
| 6 | Only once was a jarring note struck , and that was when Roger referred to the long room leading out of the kitchen as the ‘ museum ’ . |
| 7 | He peered at the long list . |
| 8 | Billy Gorman trudged up the long path to the kitchen garden and the back of the house . |
| 9 | He saw Celia sitting under a large cedar tree in the garden when he drove up the long drive and swung the car round into the forecourt . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 11 | His position — the position , indeed , to which he clung throughout the long controversy — is made clear in his reply to the Staufer and in the early letters of the register . |
| 12 | A warm wind shone through the long stubble which shimmered like silk in the heat ; the sun glared off the metal cabs of lorries and buses , the tar melted into mirages of water and cleared again . |
| 13 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 14 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 15 | The outcome of that study , however , was markedly influenced by a lack of compliance ( eight of the 20 patients withdrew from the longer course ) . |
| 16 | A piano tinkled in the long afternoon , all afternoons being long now ; an old lady , her eyes closed , hummed a relic of a long-forgotten act , not that it would be forgotten here . |
| 17 | The sun shone on the long road to the south . |
| 18 | With the Company 's experience in Sanga Sanga coupled with the longer term exploration potential of the adjacent Runtu PSC , LASMO is well positioned to contribute significantly to meeting the increasing demand . |
| 19 | They fought with the long gate into Dobbs ' field and Tom checked that she was sheltered . |
| 20 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 21 | Quinn replaced the phone , walked to the long couch , lay on his back with his hands clasped behind his head and stared at the ceiling . |
| 22 | Zak 's intended scene of investigation into Angelica 's murder had been upstaged by the reality of the Lorrimores ' car and then aborted by the long stop at Thunder Bay . |
| 23 | During her researches she went to Lord 's to examine the immense collection which belongs to the MCC and went into the Long Room . |
| 24 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 25 | Sarah looked round the long dining-room . |
| 26 | I and my best friend Katy lay in the long grass below the tennis courts . |
| 27 | We climbed the low hills northwest of the loch and lay in the long grass under the pines and the birch , looking out over the small glen to the forested hill on the far side where the old railway tunnel was . |
| 28 | Silently , I climbed back up to the road and lay in the long grass to watch what happened . |
| 29 | Admittedly nerves were strained to breaking point and great passions aroused , yet what mattered in the longer run was the extent to which it caused the British to decide to draw even closer to the United States . |
| 30 | Claudia looked in the long mirror for the last time , and her breath caught in her throat ; that beautiful bride could n't be her . |