Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect . |
| 2 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 3 | JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park . |
| 4 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
| 5 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 6 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 7 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 8 | I stroked the long handle of the trowel , wondering if my father had a name for that stick of his . |
| 9 | The Currabinny Community Association then provided a long list of other sources of responsible relevant information . |
| 10 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 11 | Zacco drew a long breath through pinched nostrils . |
| 12 | As soon as the train started , I drew a long breath of relief . |
| 13 | His face had grown pale at the harshness of the rebuke and he drew a long breath before replying . |
| 14 | Others described a long tail of various colours streaming behind a big light . |
| 15 | There is little room for poetry — a product of the despised Fancy — in all this ; yet Wordsworth was in the Locke tradition when he rejected the ‘ gaudy and inane phraseology ’ of the Fancy and devoted a long poem to the description of how Nature ( in Locke 's sense of the whole external world rather than simply mountains and lakes ) formed his mental character . |
| 16 | Her later research in this area involved a long study of the complex genetic interactions in Matthiola incana , on which she published twenty-two papers . |
| 17 | This involved a long hike over Esk Hause to Gable , and to avoid the intense mid-day heat we agreed to leave the valley at dawn . |
| 18 | One Frenchman had taken his carbine from his holster and now tried a long shot at Sharpe , but the bullet fluttered harmlessly overhead . |
| 19 | He trudged the long road to Keswick or often to Wythburn where the carrier , Jackson , would take him to Keswick when the Exhibition was held annually . |
| 20 | ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle . |
| 21 | Under this leadership the school of geology at Cambridge spawned a long list of well-known geologists who served in universities , geological surveys , and museums in Britain , India , South Africa , and other countries . |
| 22 | Suddenly , the Junkers belched a long tongue of red flame , straightened out for a moment and then spun down into the water . |
| 23 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 24 | All the machinery was powered by a gas engine which drove a long shaft near the ceiling that in turn , by means of belts to fast and loose pulleys , provided the motive power for the various equipment . |
| 25 | The sweet taste of this victory lingered a long time on the lips of Dublin dykes . |
| 26 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 27 | It 's something you use to get you from A to B , I guess , and right now that seemed a long way to me . |
| 28 | It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived . |
| 29 | It all seemed a long way from his flat in Whalley Range . |
| 30 | Surgical techniques for an artificial penis and scrotum were still experimental and any success there seemed a long way in the future . |