Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They begin well enough , rolling on to their backs , gaping the mouth awkwardly wide and allowing the long tongue to loll lifelessly from their sagging jaws . |
| 2 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
| 3 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 4 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 5 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 6 | Repeat the long firm strokes as in Step 1 , two or three times . |
| 7 | Taunton Vale , the Sun Life West League champions , made the long journey north to meet Brooklands with high hopes of regaining the National League place they lost last season . |
| 8 | He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect . |
| 9 | JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park . |
| 10 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 11 | THE first Mormon migrants made the long trek west to what would become Utah in the 1840s to escape religious and political persecution . |
| 12 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
| 13 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 14 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 15 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 16 | Yes , the heads using the long reach spark plugs are better ported and valved than the earlier heads . |
| 17 | As the match entered its final stages Civil Service thrust forward again using the long ball into the circle . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the people in charge of Oxford Uni 's mail server have been playing around of late , and have changed from using the long form to the short form , and now , it seems , back again . |
| 19 | Given the long lead-time between ordering a nuclear plant and its commercial operation , the high cost of construction , the equally awful cost of eventually decommissioning it , the margin for safety , the time-consuming process of obtaining approval ( the enquiry into all aspects of the British PWR Sizewell B took two-and-a-quarter years and cost £20 million ) the commitment has to be strong and ‘ strategic ’ enough — as in France — to counter the lack of resolve as the bills mount . |
| 20 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 21 | Given the requirement that medical evidence has to be served with the proceedings , and given the long waiting lists that now apply for very senior surgeons , it might be a good idea either to get an initial report from the treating surgeon or to use one of the independent physicians mentioned above . |
| 22 | In the surgical specialties the problem of allocating time to research is particularly acute given the long apprenticeship necessary to learn technical skills . |
| 23 | ‘ Get on ! ’ said Teng , drawing the long club from his belt and jabbing the man viciously in the small of the back . |
| 24 | Pros fear the long bunker shot as much as amateurs do . |
| 25 | The teaching session ends in late June once the degree examinations are over ; and , for the undergraduate , the remainder of the year constitutes the long vacation . |
| 26 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 27 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 28 | Dawes of Nelson can make the long trip from Surrey worthwhile by plundering the Finishing Post Sprint Handicap at Hamilton . |
| 29 | Albert Funnel , a child in Brighton in the 1900s , evokes the long shadow of the workhouse over the lives of the elderly in the decades before Old Age Pensions : |
| 30 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |