Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tears hanging on the long , girlish lashes . |
| 2 | She walked down the long red-carpeted aisle of St Paul 's Cathedral a commoner . |
| 3 | He slipped through the open toilet door and saw Lee standing half way down the long , flagged passage . |
| 4 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 5 | Julie ambled happily down the long immaculate front lawn , bordered on each side by miniature fruit trees . |
| 6 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 7 | We swayed down the long baggage car , which was half empty of freight and very noisy , and George , having told me to remove and lay aside my waistcoat in case I got oil on it , unlocked the door at the far end . |
| 8 | Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans . |
| 9 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 10 | The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below . |
| 11 | Word was passed down the long column to close up , and to be ready to make a dash for the ford . |
| 12 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 13 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 14 | Sharpe spurred down to the crossroads , touched his hat to the old ladies who were staring with alarm at the two horsemen , then he turned to gaze down the long southwards road that led to Charleroi . |
| 15 | He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free . |
| 16 | We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur . |
| 17 | Latecoming thunder caught us then , in its migraine-vice of sound as it rolled round and down the long Vénéon valley before the rains came . |
| 18 | Voices echoed flatly down the long hall . |
| 19 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 20 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 21 | The dead king seems mesmerized by them as they lead him gently but determinedly down the long ramps . |
| 22 | He was hurrying down the long room , with some white gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other hand . |
| 23 | Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable . |
| 24 | We became quite a regular there , as a matter of fact , nine consecutive mornings , including two Sundays , past the battlements , through gardens , then down the long loot-crammed passages , with glass cases full of baubles and beauties , and oblongs of oils and tapestries and embroidered maps reeling past our sight — to the waiting room . |
| 25 | For instance , how to groom a horse , how to harness it and how to walk up and down the long rigs alongside your favourite ploughman , listening to his songs and watching his work with the horses . |
| 26 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 27 | We trotted down the long flights of stairs and I followed her out through the front door . |
| 28 | Most of my friends collapsed thankfully on to their beds , but I slunk down the long flights of stone stairs and took up a position in the foyer where I could watch the front door . |
| 29 | He had a new dream , now , in which he was chased by something or someone down the long , windowless corridors of an institutional building . |
| 30 | With a fair wind Viking made short work of the intervening twelve miles , lifting easily and striding down the long seas . |