Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Literature classes with older people can be rewarding ; they bring a longer experience of life to bear on the subject , and often a wide range of reading . |
| 2 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 3 | Although they were not the first to do so , they became the longest running and , presumably , most successful pin manufacturers in the Painswick area . |
| 4 | from all over the pond until they made a long chorus croak croak croak they are saying . |
| 5 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
| 7 | The single Hebrew word translated ‘ when they make a long blast ’ is a common enough verb meaning to ‘ draw ’ or ‘ drag ’ . |
| 8 | They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed . |
| 9 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 10 | ‘ The Dragon first ! ’ shouted Melanie , so they joined the long line snaking round the barriers . |
| 11 | Abandoning their bicycles they began the long trudge to Emily 's mysterious destination . |
| 12 | They exchanged a long look as they both thought of the kisses they had shared , and Shelley 's furious rebuke . |
| 13 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 14 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 15 | Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well . |
| 16 | They trailed a long rope ( the only way of escaping off this severely overhanging route ) all the way up and through the grade to be ‘ mild E6 ’ . |
| 17 | Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’ |
| 18 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 19 | They carved the longest bulletins on television into the news show we HAD to watch , launching a new genre of reporting after the stuffed-shirt formality of the BBC . |
| 20 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 21 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 22 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 23 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 24 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 25 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 26 | They saw a long pool , a puddle of water shrunken to the rotting lily roots on its muddy floor . |
| 27 | ‘ I can walk down here , ’ she told him when they reached the long gallery . |
| 28 | The coastal strip was flat and uninteresting , the juddering vehicle hot and noisy , and she breathed a heartfelt sigh of relief when they reached the long bridge linking Venice with the mainland . |
| 29 | You 're not required to know all that remember or indeed any of it because they have everything they need to know , particularly if they do the long tour , they have everything they need to know on the tour and everything they need to know about the furniture well pieces of furnitures . |
| 30 | The question of his metropolitan privileges will require separate discussion , for they cast a long shadow over the whole of Anselm 's life as archbishop . |