Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 2 | This sum is handed over by the long to the short in final settlement . |
| 3 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 4 | Why must her blonde hair , bleached now by the long summer 's light to a ravishing pallor , be chopped so harshly ? |
| 5 | On the latter subject , the author points to the inconsistent decisions on whether the effect of unambiguous operative provisions can be cut down by the long title and he seems to incline to the view that they can be so affected ; this , perhaps , does not give sufficient weight to what was said about the effect of the preamble in Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover . |
| 6 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 7 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |
| 8 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 9 | But the couple 's solicitor Con Fernandez said the pair were just skittles waiting to be bowled over by the long arm of the law . |
| 10 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |