Example sentences of "down the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 2 | Voices echoed flatly down the long hall . |
| 3 | The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below . |
| 4 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 5 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 6 | She crossed the stableyard and went into the house , hurrying down the long passage until she arrived , flushed high in expectation , at the service door to the dining room , where Maman and Dada and Aunt Tossie were eating breakfast . |
| 7 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 8 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 9 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 10 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |
| 11 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |
| 12 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 13 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |
| 14 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 15 | Without a moment 's delay Aunt Tossie got up and sailed down the long room , the ends of her boa floating out behind her , careless majesty in her gait . |
| 16 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 17 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 18 | However , this is not always the best direction , because boards running down the longest area of a room will make it seem even longer and narrower . |