Example sentences of "back [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 2 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 3 | Held back for a long time by wild hitting , she has accepted in the last 12 months that there are occasions when she must suppress the urge to attack everything flat out . |
| 4 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
| 5 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 6 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 7 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 8 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 9 | " I always thought that gardens , " said Clara , as they progressed slowly back along the long stretch of grass , and down the steps to the lower level , " I always thought that gardens were for growing flowers in . |
| 10 | Following her normal routine , she had changed out of her show glitter back into a long and relatively modest black evening dress before slipping back into the main section of the club . |
| 11 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 12 | One day , their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey . |
| 13 | He kept the shoulders stiff and he rolled a little , like a sailor back from a long voyage . |
| 14 | Bigwig 's eyes were closed and his lips pulled back from the long front teeth in a fixed snarl . |
| 15 | Now he was moving slowly as the bark peeled back in a longer and longer strip . |
| 16 | Most caddies have their own way of getting one back in the long run . |
| 17 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 18 | And there she was , back in the long room with the little glass table . |
| 19 | I lay back in the long chair . |
| 20 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |
| 21 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 22 | The lithe vessel left a white wake that stretched all the way back to the long iron and glass walkway of the railway terminal , a thin cord of foam linking the crowded paddle-steamer to a solid world of steam trains , corner shops , and utility furniture . |
| 23 | Lucy was also aware that Doreen 's previous anger appeared to have vanished as she carried refilled plates back to the long table , where she chatted and laughed with the men and the two guides . |