Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | when his eccentricity slid into madness , he used to terrify his servants by walking the Long Gallery , dressed in a sheet , dragging a length of chain and wailing piteously . |
| 2 | Sir Bryan had made par on the first hole by sinking a long putt and his tail was up . |
| 3 | The basic technique is called run length coding and works by replacing a long run of unchanging data by the shortest possible code . |
| 4 | If the vendor attempts to avoid a balancing charge in respect of an industrial building by granting a long lease at a premium out of the " relevant interest " which he owns , Newco will not be entitled to industrial buildings allowances on the premium ( see s20 Capital Allowances Act 1990 ) . |
| 5 | In discussing the above information and access requirements , the purchaser should be careful not to discourage the vendors either by presenting a long shopping list or by giving the impression that the price expectation already given has been poorly researched . |
| 6 | By holding a long contract for delivery at T 1 and a short contract for delivery at T 2 , it would be possible to take delivery at T 1 for P f 1 and keep the asset for making delivery at T 2 for P f 2 and to make a sure profit . |
| 7 | Although Wordsworth had produced more poems than Coleridge for their joint volume , Lyrical Ballads , honour was satisfied by giving the long Ancient Mariner — or Ancyent Marinere as it was originally spelt — pride of place . |
| 8 | They then either flush the rabbits by tapping two sticks together or by dragging a long line between them across the field or fields towards the net . |
| 9 | If a gloomy mood descended on him , he could shake it off by taking a long walk in the direction of the most barren stretch of beach , out over the dunes . |
| 10 | This was certainly brought home to me when , by taking the long way round Australia this year , i.e. buying a round the world ticket to the Australian Open , rather than a straight forward London–Melbourne return , with a stop-off in Sydney for the New South Wales Open , I saved The Daily Telegraph , which is naturally as cost conscious as any other company in these difficult financial times , a considerable amount of money . |
| 11 | Strip any leaves from the portion to be buried , and then expose some of the inner tissues near a node by scraping bark from the underside , twisting the stem to break some of the fibres , or by making a long sloping cut into the centre of the stem to form a ‘ tongue ’ , held open with a matchstick . |
| 12 | Wound the stem 12–15in from its tip by making a long cut to form a tongue . |
| 13 | I 'm not a good speaker so I 'm not going to bore you by making a long speech . |
| 14 | BALLYMENA opened their season by making the long trip to the Scottish Borders where they defeated Hawick after leading 13-0 at the interval . |
| 15 | Walter solved this problem by mounting a long flat spring between the check and the action frame at the treble end . |