Example sentences of "down a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 2 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |
| 3 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 4 | One bridled gilly held his head high and with effort painful to watch , gulped down a long sand eel , head first . |
| 5 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |
| 6 | Wine glasses will look effective arranged down a long dinner table , alternating single large blooms with groups of tiny flowers . |
| 7 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 8 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 9 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 10 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 11 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 12 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 13 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 14 | Beyond Broadford ( which Boswell calls ‘ Broadfoot ’ ) , past today 's electricity installations , down a long roadway , lies the farm at which they stayed , and some remains of the original house still stand . |
| 15 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 16 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |