Example sentences of "down the long [noun] [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 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 3 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 4 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 7 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |