Example sentences of "from a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember these nomads myself , from a long while ago in Scotland . |
| 2 | From a long walk — |
| 3 | There were opportunities to flirt with other passengers , moments when young American women returning from a long tour left mothers and aunts below deck , and , standing a few feet away from Edward , they stared out at the Atlantic . |
| 4 | The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits . |
| 5 | Each came from a long cross by Jamie Webb . |
| 6 | Each came from a long cross ( not gules but or ) by Jamie Webb . |
| 7 | When bread was a shilling a loaf and men earned less than ten shillings from a long week 's work , his father or some other relation was among the most bitterly rebellious against a system that could tolerate such things . |
| 8 | Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . |
| 9 | Institutions , customs , political and cultural traditions stemming from a long pagan past , were still very much alive in it . |
| 10 | Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee . |
| 11 | Here it grates more than usually , despite British voices in the mix : the unmistakable tones of Maggie Smith ; Bob Hoskins taking a break from a long run of phoney American accents to play a cockney Smee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |
| 14 | Each individual cuckoo nestling is descended from a long line of ancestral cuckoo nestlings , every single one of whom must have succeeded in manipulating its foster-parent . |
| 15 | But each individual foster-parent is descended from a long line of ancestors many of whom never encountered a cuckoo in their lives . |
| 16 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |
| 19 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |
| 20 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 21 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 22 | Breeding success , judging from a long series of reports from Rye , has also changed little since 1947 ; the Rye figures show an average brood size ranging from 5.7 to 9.7 , and averaging 7.8 . |
| 23 | Explore the objects and evidence gathered from a long history of local excavation . |
| 24 | I imagine that you would also be aware that the only reason the Pentagon produces such figures is to extract from a long suffering American tax-payer billions upon billions of extra dollars in order to pursue its own lunatic military fantasies . |
| 25 | When back pain and arthritis are the problems it can help to take short rests or breaks from a long stint in one position — say sitting at a desk or standing at an ironing-table . |
| 26 | The ideology of Hitler and his cronies derived from a long history of pseudo-philosophical state thuggery . |
| 27 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 28 | Occasionally a person will suffer from a long and unpleasant illness like glandular fever , but this is rare . |
| 29 | From a long way off she heard a voice say : ‘ Green as a piece of ripe Stilton … ’ and then the room disappeared . |
| 30 | The hammock , which was slung from a long pole carried on the shoulders of two men , was used for transporting the sick and infirm across rough country terrain and , in and around Funchal , for the rich and for the tourists who were carried through the dirty , and sometimes muddy , streets . |