Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long grass " in BNC.

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1 Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day .
2 He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass .
3 It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever .
4 At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior .
5 I sat down in the long grass , puzzled to understand my weakness .
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