Example sentences of "like a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was treated like a long lost brother ! |
| 2 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 3 | SPAIN 'S five years in the European Community have seemed like a long honeymoon . |
| 4 | An open trellis ( made of tree stakes ) down one length of the garden prevents it from looking like a long , thin bowling alley and utilises next door 's honeysuckle as an extension . |
| 5 | Endill did not move for what seemed like a long time . |
| 6 | The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent . |
| 7 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 8 | This looks almost like a long unused guest room with a view . |
| 9 | It sounds like a long way ? |
| 10 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 11 | We 've all got a big long locker where we put all our different coats in and our boots and all our other equipment like a long thing |
| 12 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 13 | What she did see was hair the colour of rich , ruby port wine , swept up , somehow , from the forehead and hanging past her shoulders in a heavy , shining mass that curled under at the sides and bottom like a long page-boy bob . |
| 14 | Lockstitch is used to loosely hold linings to curtains and is like a long loose blanket stitch . |
| 15 | It had been higher still , probably some three or four days earlier , for it had bitten a great red hole in the shelving bank , like a long wound in the smooth turf , and left the traces of its attack in half-dried puddles of silky clay and a litter of sodden leaves and bushes . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 17 | There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 . |
| 18 | Lady Maude , small and pert , was cheerful as a little sparrow , welcoming Benedicta like a long lost sister . |
| 19 | It all seemed like a long time ago , but actually it was only this morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Or perhaps guilt has always been a condition of man , since the early days of the world , before time rolled out like a long slumber across the universe . |
| 21 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 22 | At one time , thinking of her childhood , which must have been a grey business , rather like a long , dull , cold Sunday , he had been furious with his father-in-law . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like a long drink to a thirsty man ’ . |
| 24 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |
| 25 | That might seem like a long time , but the issues have clearly been complex , and have been progressed as quickly as possible not least through vigourous prodding by the D O E , keen to see approval of a long term development strategy for Greater York and more importantly , a statutory definition of the York gre greenbelt . |
| 26 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 27 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 28 | Also Haddock has had to quit and Sterland looks like a long term crock . |
| 29 | One hundred years seems like a long time to us , because it is longer than our lifetime . |
| 30 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |