Example sentences of "from a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's saved you from a long prison-term . |
| 32 | Ruth heard Mrs Peterson 's voice from a long way off . |
| 33 | The tireless charity worker , who had been suffering from a long illness , had overcome his own difficulties to talk of his hopes and plans for others . |
| 34 | My parents were from a long line of good people with a strong sense of duty , living at peace with their neighbours , quick to be helpful when it was in their power , understandably a little feudal in their outlook , with a cautious eye on the squire for whom they worked , liking a glass of beer or homemade parsnip wine , and not above a bit of rabbit poaching . |
| 35 | I 'm also sorry to disappoint all those writers on anorexia nervosa who insist that the disease stems from a long standing aversion to sexuality and childbirth . |
| 36 | I was suddenly terrified , as if from a long distance away I had seen my family poised on the edge of a crumbling cliff , unaware and smiling . |
| 37 | They were finally rewarded when Wadforth fired them in front from a short corner but they momentarily relaxed and Pelicans replied almost immediately with a well-worked move from a long corner which caught out the defence . |
| 38 | That Smart identified himself with other disciples as a missionary is apparent from a long passage in Fragment B , beginning at line 123 : |
| 39 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 42 | The anarchist , or more accurately anarcho-syndicalist , CNT ( National Confederation of Labour ) had been founded in 1910–11 ; its main bastions were Catalonia , where socialist strength in the working class was virtually non-existent ; Andalusia , where anarchism drew vigour from a long tradition of rural insurrectionism and millenarianism ; Zaragoza ; and parts of Asturias , Valencia and Galicia . |
| 43 | From a long line of tradition in adidas shoe manufacture comes the Tennis Stabil and the Tennis Lite . |
| 44 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 45 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 46 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 47 | It is a big bridal veil , but my picture was taken from a long way off . |
| 48 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 49 | The object of the game , to construct small words from a long word , is made more interesting by the use of graphics . |
| 50 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Individually , we probably all — even if we are not involved in advertising — have at least a small number of slogans or even whole ads which we remember readily , and sometimes even with affection , from a long time back . |
| 53 | A zoom lens is the visual equivalent of a continuous gear shift in a car : merely by turning a handle , the operator can move from a long lens , giving a narrow view but a deep-focus telescopic shot of the subject , to a short , wide-angle lens , with a wide view . |
| 54 | Her husband was calling to her , as it seemed , from a long way off . |
| 55 | Under Criminal Justice Act 1991 the position of an offender who commits an offence following his release from a long sentence such as the 15 years which the appellant had received in 1981 will be very different . |
| 56 | ‘ 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 . |
| 57 | From a long way away , he asked : ‘ When shall we see our uncle ? ’ |
| 58 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 59 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 60 | She realized then that the coffin lid had simply been lifted off , letting in light from a long strip-light that hung from a plain rock ceiling . |