Example sentences of "on a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 2 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 3 | The film opened on a long lingering shot of sponsors ' lorries . |
| 4 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 5 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 6 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 7 | We climbed Storskarfjell on a long and hard day that started before the sun came up and finished long after it had gone down . |
| 8 | Only on a long , fast bend can the tail be persuaded to step out , and then only under strong provocation and with little drama , as the drivetrain begins to feed the power rearwards . |
| 9 | On a long table place containers in a row . |
| 10 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 11 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 12 | She was on a long time . |
| 13 | Your Uncle Walter 'll go on a long time yet , you see . ’ |
| 14 | Simon was good-looking , Marie thought , as she watched him cut across the beach on a long diagonal towards the kiosk . |
| 15 | He was getting nearer to himself , travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees . |
| 16 | For anyone on a long car journey , FM will never produce a solid clear path like the long-wave ( LW ) which carries Radio 4 the length and breadth of the land , up hill and down dale . |
| 17 | General Mao-Tse-Tung was leading an army of 100,000 peasants on a long march south through Sianfu . |
| 18 | And now I must pack up and take the road ; you 'll be keeping me company on a long night march , although I know you 're asleep in our nice warm bed … |
| 19 | This species has a finely toothed margin ; a large , wide leaf born on a long stem . |
| 20 | Then , on a long haul , it would n't go up hill or overtake on the flat . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , ’ on a long stressed sigh . |
| 22 | Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter . |
| 23 | A lot can be learned about a place on a long Sunday morning run . |
| 24 | The house must be offered for sale on a long lease — which means 125 years — with its immediate gardens and shrubberies : the area , roughly speaking , within the ha-ha , together with the drive . |
| 25 | Such accommodation can often be let on a long lease or sold to raise a capital sum . |
| 26 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 27 | I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank . |
| 28 | I wonder when I will learn that on a long walk in a single unchanging direction , one will automatically go home with a left leg sporting first-degree burns and a right limb like a piece of white Italian veal ? |
| 29 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 30 | A man once attempted to descend into the cave on a long rope tied at the surface to a bell . |