Example sentences of "[vb pp] from a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 2 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |
| 3 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 4 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 5 | The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off . |
| 6 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 7 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |
| 8 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 9 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 10 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 11 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 12 | Three of these subjects are compulsory , two are chosen from a long list ( see below ) , while the dissertation is a free choice restricted only by practicality , ingenuity and application . |