Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well either two or four times er turned down on a long handle for pouring things er out of the , I mean like , when I used |
| 2 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 3 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 4 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 5 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 6 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 7 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 8 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 9 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 10 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 11 | Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race . |
| 12 | He launched out on a long story . |
| 13 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 14 | Letting his breath out on a long sigh , he changed his mind . |
| 15 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 16 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 17 | Later we stretched out on the long benches of the White Horse Farm , comparing our bruises and recounting our 30-mile epic . |
| 18 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 19 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 20 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |