Example sentences of "a long walk [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 2 | A long walk through the remote area of Assynt |
| 3 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 4 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 5 | However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . |
| 6 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 7 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 8 | It was a long walk to the chair in front of the desk . |
| 9 | Then a long walk to the little room . |
| 10 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 11 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 12 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 13 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 14 | I wonder when I will learn that on a long walk in a single unchanging direction , one will automatically go home with a left leg sporting first-degree burns and a right limb like a piece of white Italian veal ? |
| 15 | Along the way came the rescue of the magazine , History Today , a long walk in the Himalayas collecting more than 2,000 seeds , and making his family self-sufficient in milk , eggs and vegetables on a London plot . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Going for a long walk in the country on a Sunday afternoon when you 've got a lot of marking still to do , or having an affair with a colleague — they could go either way . |
| 18 | His brothers aged 8 and 10 , whose school was a long walk in the opposite direction , had to be relied on to take this responsibility when their father could not . |
| 19 | Next day I took him outside for a long walk in the fresh air . |
| 20 | She wore a light silk dress and thin shoes , which did not seem at all suitable for a long walk in the snow . |
| 21 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |
| 22 | It 's a long walk from the Tower to Poplar . ’ |
| 23 | She should have insisted , have pretended that Sophia 's part of London was inaccessible by public transport , and of course , when one came to think of it , there was quite a long walk from the station . |