Example sentences of "out [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 2 | And they did ; all flattened and crouched , creeping low in the grass ; quite unlike the sprightly reed with its flashy habit of fanning out the long tail to show off white outer tail feathers . |
| 3 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 4 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 5 | Within minutes of disembarking from the boats and starting the search we all found to our disappointment that the good weather still had n't dried out the long grass of the islands , and we were all soon soaking . |
| 6 | ‘ Just when a player thinks he is past him , Pally will stick out a long leg and nick the ball off him . |
| 7 | To cover the sides of the cake , roll out a long strip of marzipan as long as the circumference of the cake and as wide as its depth ( hint : the circumference of a round cake is three times its diameter ) . |
| 8 | Mould a very little black food colouring into some spare fondant to create a light marbled grey effect , and roll out a long strip to place along each side of the road . |
| 9 | Cut out a long strip of coloured paper and cut a scalloped edge along one side . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher . |
| 12 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 13 | It let out a long clang . |
| 14 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 15 | Benstede pursed his lips and let out a long sigh . |
| 16 | Cindy Hill breathed out a long sigh of relief . |
| 17 | She suddenly let out a long sigh and swept her hair from her face . |
| 18 | She gave out a long sigh . |
| 19 | The Politis editor , Mr Jean-Paul Besset , said his magazine had carried out a long investigation into dangerous waste dumping , including the discovery in 1983 of barrels of earth impregnated with dioxin from Seveso that were illegally shipped to northern France by an independent contractor . |
| 20 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 21 | Evans let out a long whistle . |
| 22 | Middlemass stretched out a long arm and held the instrument to his left ear . |
| 23 | The phone rang , and he reached out a long arm and hooked it up . |
| 24 | Penry reached out a long arm and drew her in front of him so that she stood in the shelter of his arms as he held the wheel . |
| 25 | He took out a long piece of paper , and read : |
| 26 | The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a long length of what looked like ribbon . |
| 27 | Having said that , erm we we discussed these matters er in early nine nineteen ninety one at officer level , we set out a out a long letter setting out our concerns er in December nineteen ninety one . |
| 28 | He was silent for a long time , then he blew out a long stream of smoke and turned his head towards her . |
| 29 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 30 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |