Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go . |
| 2 | She went in for a drink one time , she liked a few drinks around midday , she used to say it helped the long hot afternoons slide by , ’ and Nathan smiled to himself , because he could hear her saying it . |
| 3 | She knew her mother 's moods ; she recognised the strain of annoyance that drew the long delicate features of her face into a severe mask . |
| 4 | Very gently he caught the long glittering strands and brushed them behind her ear , his fingers lingering coolly against her flesh just for a moment before he let them drop to his side . |
| 5 | Then fear overcame curiosity and he scrambled down from the tree with such haste that he skinned his knees and gouged a long deep gash along the inside of his forearm . |
| 6 | Rostov drew a long shuddering breath . |
| 7 | Swinging the horse 's head to face the massed coolies again , Duclos drew a long solid wood truncheon from a leather saddle scabbard and stood up in the stirrups . |
| 8 | They drew a long covert upwind between Queen Hoo Hall and Bramfield . |
| 9 | Annoyed with herself , she drew a long hissing breath as she gritted through tight lips , ‘ Really , I do n't know why I 'm revealing all this to a complete stranger — somebody I 've only just met — ’ |
| 10 | He had a taxi waiting , and on arrival we found a long cloth-draped table in the centre of the room , around which were seated what seemed to be the entire Chinese population of the city — some 30 Chinese , mainly from laundries and restaurants . |
| 11 | The girl departed and Ella unwound the long woollen scarf from her thick neck , undid her coat and sighed with relief . |
| 12 | And suddenly , with the water , out came the long slimy newt straight into the glass , plop ! |
| 13 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 14 | On the fourth day he received a long chatty letter from Eleanor . |
| 15 | From then on , the walk was far less interesting : we passed the Bishops Wordsworth School Sports Field then came a long dull stretch to The Rose and Crown , that always looked decrepit until renovation in the ‘ thirties . |
| 16 | Then came a long anxious wait in the foyer oft he Great Southern Hotel . |
| 17 | They joined the long silent line of monks filing into the church . |
| 18 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 19 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 20 | Vanessa produced a long black rod with a transparent sphere attached to the end . |
| 21 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 22 | I got a long bright beam from the shiny eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ He had the look of somebody about to invite you home to cold chicken and salad with a mug of real warm English beer , ’ she continued as they walked the long black-and-white-tiled corridor . |
| 24 | Corbett slipped another coin into the man 's hand and , while the ferryman made himself comfortable in the shadow of his boat , Corbett began the long arduous climb up the hill . |
| 25 | Significantly , both escaped the long pre-Reformation decline of saints generally . |
| 26 | Then followed the long agonising wait . |
| 27 | From the late eighteenth century the rise of the cotton industry not only reversed the long relative decline in the importance of textile exports but pushed the first industrial nation , if not in an entirely new direction , at least up a much steeper path . |
| 28 | In 1665 a contested by-election began a long parliamentary career , Lowther representing Cumberland thereafter in every Parliament until illness compelled his retirement in 1699 . |
| 29 | The harpsichord began a long lute-stop passage , a new movement , as gentle as rain , the sounds stealing through the house , mysterious , remote-sounding harmonies . |
| 30 | I followed a long harbour-wall pathway , then took a gate into a park . |