Example sentences of "from a long way [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a long way up . ’ |
| 2 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 3 | From a long way away , he asked : ‘ When shall we see our uncle ? ’ |
| 4 | And then I thought I heard voices once , coming from a long way away , but I could n't work out where they were coming from ; and they were so very faint I almost thought I 'd imagined them . |
| 5 | From a long way away he heard the sound of a piano . |
| 6 | His eyes seemed to be coming from a long way away . |
| 7 | , that 's from a long way away that name . |
| 8 | You 'll be able to see them two houses from a long way away . |
| 9 | If Seve Ballesteros had looked a winner all along in 1979 , and certainly looked likely to lift the claret jug from a long way out , Dave 's second Open success was not so cut-and-dried . |
| 10 | Hastings converted from a long way out before John penalty attempt . |
| 11 | Pemberton hit the post from a long way out for Leeds . |
| 12 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 13 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 14 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |
| 15 | From a long way off she heard a voice say : ‘ Green as a piece of ripe Stilton … ’ and then the room disappeared . |
| 16 | Ruth heard Mrs Peterson 's voice from a long way off . |
| 17 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 18 | Her husband was calling to her , as it seemed , from a long way off . |
| 19 | ‘ You said that if you drop a clock into a black hole , and you watch it from a long way off , the hands appear to go round slower the closer it gets to the hole . |
| 20 | The water cascaded down the face of the spillway again , the noise like a million stamping feet heard from a long way off . |
| 21 | It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning . |
| 22 | He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off . |
| 23 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 24 | Sara heard Matthew 's voice from a long way off . |
| 25 | That 's good actually because I saw that from a long way off and I thought what is it ? |