Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 2 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 3 | petals strongly and sweetly perfumed , retained over a long period when dried , used in perfumery , potpourris , for perfuming writing paper . |
| 4 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 5 | Eric Pendry himself drew up a long list of recommendations for making these exercises safer . |
| 6 | It let out a long clang . |
| 7 | She let out a long whistle , and heard him chuckle . |
| 8 | Evans let out a long whistle . |
| 9 | Ellen Harker let out a long breath and relaxed visibly . |
| 10 | He let out a long breath and raised his hands to cover both ears . |
| 11 | He let out a long breath then turned to look at Hitch . |
| 12 | Hans let out a long breath . |
| 13 | Harry let out a long breath . |
| 14 | He let out a long breath . |
| 15 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 16 | Improv provides business an professional users with a unique set of capabilities for dynamic viewing and analysis , and , for building spreadsheets that can be easily reused , modified and shared over a long lifecycle . |
| 17 | One bridled gilly held his head high and with effort painful to watch , gulped down a long sand eel , head first . |
| 18 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 19 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 20 | ( Martial arts are a way of life — skills learnt and practised over a long period , used to tune the mind and body to a state of superb readiness . |
| 21 | Wine glasses will look effective arranged down a long dinner table , alternating single large blooms with groups of tiny flowers . |
| 22 | The church began in late Saxon times and developed over a long period , finally being made redundant in the 1960s , when part of it collapsed . |
| 23 | Cindy Hill breathed out a long sigh of relief . |
| 24 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 25 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 26 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 27 | When the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee met in September 1956 , Vo Nguyen Giap read out a long list of errors , some quite devastating : ‘ We have failed to realise the necessity of uniting with the middle-level peasants . |
| 28 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 29 | The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a long length of what looked like ribbon . |
| 30 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |