Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 2 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 3 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 4 | We abandoned the last Munro , especially as it 's a top that can be combined with Meall Greigh to be bagged another day , and staggered down into the long glen that would take us back to our morning starting point . |
| 5 | ‘ Mummy will be cross , ’ she murmured , wrinkling her nose as she peered down at the long tear . |
| 6 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 7 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 8 | Louis , walking out to the long black car , was a sack of tears . |
| 9 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
| 10 | After a print run of , say 100 A4 sheets , the printed sheets are then turned over on the long axis , and the same print is made on the reverse . |
| 11 | France : new orders dried up as the long run of 63 reactors either built or under construction came to an end and the country grappled with the problem of an over-supply of electricity . |
| 12 | The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk . |
| 13 | BORED kids are fed up with the long summer holiday and ca n't wait to go back to school , according to a new survey . |
| 14 | Searching back through the long history of feline deterrents , there appear to have been only three smelly substances that have achieved a measure of success . |
| 15 | Then , as some car in the street outside her hotel coughed and choked and backfired , Fabia abruptly came out of the long reverie she had fallen into , and back to the present , to realise that it was Monday morning — did she think she was going to sit there in bed all day ? |
| 16 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 17 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 18 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 19 | With a path to walk on through the long ‘ now ’ of summer . |
| 20 | This sum is handed over by the long to the short in final settlement . |
| 21 | Finish off with the long , stroking movements with which you began in Step 1 . |
| 22 | He clambered up behind the long bonnet , onto the padded bucket seat . |
| 23 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 24 | Despite the myths which surround the Act , it turned out in the long term to be quite efficient and reasonably humane , but the threat of transition sparked off another series of troubles in Sussex , the last concerted fling of desperation . |
| 25 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 26 | Secure on to the long sides of the house ( two on each side ) with a little royal icing . |
| 27 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 28 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 29 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 30 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |