Example sentences of "that [verb] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew her mother 's moods ; she recognised the strain of annoyance that drew the long delicate features of her face into a severe mask . |
| 2 | She held the lead and quietly plodded upward through the crisp snow that covered the long Baskan Glacier . |
| 3 | In apprehension of the critical hordes sweeping through Cologne en route to Documenta and the Basel Art Fair , many galleries are ending the spring season with shows that take the long view . |
| 4 | The boat left a wake that rocked the long drifts of dead leaves on the water and slapped against the quay below them . |
| 5 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 6 | Indeed , there is a strong argument that stretching the long arm of the law to the ‘ innocent ’ hacker could escalate rather than curb serious crime . |