Example sentences of "[adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : I was playing football on the playing field at HMS Ganges when suddenly a long bugle call playing the Still sounded from the tannoy system . |
| 2 | Suddenly a long arm came out from under the rags and a bony hand grasped Marian 's shoulder . |
| 3 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 4 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 5 | Particular care is needed where reports are prepared and it is believed that a person other than the client will have access to the report and may seek to rely upon it ( eg a long form report prepared for a vendor prior to sale ) . |
| 6 | It grew until it was a window and out through the window she could see down a long tunnel ; and beyond that the sun shining and the mountains rising over the fruit trees . |
| 7 | I have an idea that there 's this wonderful , amazing painting and everyone 'll love it and I did it , but it 's down a long tunnel somewhere . |
| 8 | Sub David Cork was brought down by Wes Saunders after Cusack headed down a long punt by Prudhoe , but Cook , taking the responsibility instead of the absent Lee Ellison , blasted his spot kick too close to Gareth Howells and the keeper pushed the ball away . |
| 9 | One bridled gilly held his head high and with effort painful to watch , gulped down a long sand eel , head first . |
| 10 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |
| 11 | Wine glasses will look effective arranged down a long dinner table , alternating single large blooms with groups of tiny flowers . |
| 12 | You approach the park down a long avenue , past lawns carefully tended and set in a girdle of trees . |
| 13 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 14 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 15 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 16 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 17 | In the resonance technique a series of pulses of either compressional or torsional waves is transmitted down a long rod mechanically coupled to the specimen under investigation . |
| 18 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 19 | Beyond Broadford ( which Boswell calls ‘ Broadfoot ’ ) , past today 's electricity installations , down a long roadway , lies the farm at which they stayed , and some remains of the original house still stand . |
| 20 | It is simpler to make the note " Jones p. 253 " than to write down a long dissertation which is already in print . |
| 21 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 22 | So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went ! |
| 23 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 24 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 25 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 26 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 27 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 28 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 29 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 30 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |