Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 2 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 4 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 7 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I see him back in the long term as county captain . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 13 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 16 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 17 | So you know she she said he gets it back in the long run . |