Example sentences of "[adv] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat .
2 The commandos blew in its steel door , and , leaving Chamberlain , who could hardly help himself along , to guard it , they ran down the long stairway to the pumps 40 feet below .
3 We had crossed over to Mykines early in the day , sailing down the long fiord from the village of Sørvágur .
4 Josh stifled a yawn and opened the Register of Membership , running down the long list of names and pencilling question-marks against those who were old or infirm or generally unreliable .
5 Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans .
6 She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind .
7 Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ .
8 He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills .
9 Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support .
10 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 .
11 We fled down a long avenue towards the river .
12 The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls .
16 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 .
17 The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das .
18 And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June .
19 When it came , what a bore — no beer , no fancy cheroots , just a long discussion about the validity of putting Sham 69 on the cover .
20 it 's just a long drive over there
21 And be especially careful with formulations of the kind illustrated in the examples below ; do not be misled by a direct interrogative — the answer is never just a long version of " yes " or " no " :
22 Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines .
23 The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle .
24 A die could survive over a long period of time .
25 This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time .
26 One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time .
27 Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time .
28 Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time .
29 The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time .
30 The rationale , however , for that is clear : while insurers are willing to concede that accidents will happen , events developing over a long period of time because of a lack of concern for the potential hazards should not be allowed to .
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