Example sentences of "came [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian , who came of a long line of English country gentlemen whose only aesthetic investment was in bloodstock , was a maverick , and the despair of his family when Edouard first met him . |
| 2 | In the first chilly greyness of dawn , before the sun rose , Sergeant Comstock , of the uniformed branch , who came of a long line of native fishermen , not to say poachers , and knew his river as he knew the palm of his own hand , thankfully abandoned what he had always known was a useless patrol of the left bank downstream , and on his own responsibility borrowed one of his many nephews , and embarked with him in the coracle which was his natural means of personal transport on the Comer . |
| 3 | The light came from a long mirror surrounded by unshaded bulbs . |
| 4 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 5 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 6 | Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb . |
| 7 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 8 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |