Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall
2 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
3 ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’
4 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 .
5 E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it .
6 When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side .
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