Example sentences of "[adv prt] the long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 2 | The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below . |
| 3 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 4 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 5 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |
| 6 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 7 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 8 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 9 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 10 | Marie , on her way back up the long flight of steps from the prom , watched them laughing together . |
| 11 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 12 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 13 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 14 | Kalchu , Nara and Kāli fetched the wooden shovels and , standing thigh-high in the snow , set about the long work of clearing the roof . |