Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 2 | Huge boulders and slabs enclose a long chamber with a central drainage gully . |
| 3 | Elves and Dwarves have a long history of hate yet Legolas and Gimli become friends because they travel in Frodo 's company together . |
| 4 | Some of the other men had been busy , tying together ropes and halters to make a long leash . |
| 5 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |