Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 2 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 3 | MIDDLESBROUGH Bears , facing their first Homefire League match of the 1992 season in only two weeks ' time , need another good result against Glasgow at Cleveland Park tonight to fire them up for a long and hard campaign . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 7 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 8 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 9 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |