Example sentences of "out [prep] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His youngest daughter was almost ready for burial , her body emptied , dried out , repacked , decked out for the long night , bandaged in the finest linen with the scarab placed over her heart , and laid in her case of painted cedarwood . |
| 2 | He turned , staring out of the long window again , effectively dismissing the man . |
| 3 | Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ? |
| 4 | At this moment a lion bursts out of the long grass and bush and leaps on a warrior . |
| 5 | Such long term fixed rate financing opportunities may not be so readily available in the future , with the chance of the corporate sector being crowded , or priced , out of the long end of the market . |
| 6 | One difference between the pub and the rest of the street was that the brickwork had been painted cream which made it stand out from the long façade of varying shades of red or grey . |
| 7 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
| 8 | It was thus the internal policies of the United States that determined to a great extent who among the indebted nations won and who lost out in the long debt crisis of the 1980s ( Wellons , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | It seems to even out in the long run , although sometimes one has to give a wry smile when a customer dithers over one of ‘ hers ’ and one of ‘ mine ’ — then chooses ‘ hers ’ . |
| 10 | At present , Ann led and Megan followed , but that would sort itself out in the long run . |
| 11 | Mankind will lose out in the long run if wild varieties of crop plant species are allowed to die out as it will mean that |
| 12 | For example , some women in a financial position to stop work and start a family are loath to give up their careers for a period , knowing they may lose out in the long term . |
| 13 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 14 | Gazzer rolled off the drum and lay , flat out in the long grass . |
| 15 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 16 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 17 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 18 | He laid it carefully out on the long table whilst waving Corbett over . |
| 19 | Mrs. Mott had been very put out by the long time the builders had stayed in the hall ; the chattering of the girls was the final straw . |