Example sentences of "[adv] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We fled down a long avenue towards the river . |
| 3 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | it 's just a long drive over there |
| 12 | 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 " : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The broad branching heads of large , ragged yellow daisies appear over a long period during summer ; a large patch is a magnificent spectacle . |
| 15 | A die could survive over a long period of time . |
| 16 | This perspective is inadequate for an understanding of the colonial legal system because the post-independence practices evolved over a long period of time . |
| 17 | One is that the abuse is part of the way two people communicate over a long period of time . |
| 18 | Unlike groups in laboratory studies , the work group is not created and then disbanded permanently ; it often survives over a long period of time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Profitboss. genuinely cares for his customers and develops sound trusting relationships with them over a long period of time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another modification of the model assumes that uniform extension occurs but takes account of the fact that stretching of the lithosphere is likely to occur over a long period of time , probably several million years . |
| 23 | Not a long way from Kirsty . |
| 24 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 25 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 26 | There is already a long list of great British industries — from shipbuilding to motorcycles — which have slid into terminal decline . |
| 27 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |
| 29 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 30 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |