Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 2 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 3 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 4 | Well , you may win , but your counterparts will think they 've lost and so in the long run will you . |
| 5 | Thus investment in preschool provision and the improved quality of life it bestows may pay good dividends in the shape of calculable beneficial effects on the child 's educational attainments five years hence and perhaps into the longer future . |
| 6 | In many cases these activities have promoted gender-neutral policies and perhaps in the long term will have a major impact on some aspects of gender bias in schools . |
| 7 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 8 | Up three floors in the elevator , and away down the long corridor that was chaos because the electricians were rewiring the floor , and on to the security gate into Bureau territory . |
| 9 | His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule . |
| 10 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 11 | This brought an access of homesickness , not for the Yorkshire moors but for the English language , and also for the long days of last summer 's play , for Alexander Wedderburn 's blown-rose full-blooded verse on the Elizabethan terrace at Long Royston , English summer evenings . |
| 12 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 13 | Should your goals be made smaller and then into a longer list ? |
| 14 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 15 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
| 16 | MS and the 1729 edition , since it seems to imply a manner of performance rather than any specific tempo in fact it is associated here with two quite distinct tempos , first in the opening simphonie ( minim=72 ) and then in the longer version of no.g , the bass rècit , ‘ Tu devicto ’ ( minim=41 ) . |
| 17 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 18 | It is an immediate , positive image which embodies the character of this production , and indeed of the long tradition at Peter Cheeseman 's Vics Old and New . |
| 19 | The boy , arms and legs as thin as sticks , his eyes dark and round in a long , white face , came over , his thumb stuck in his mouth . |
| 20 | Although a bit of a nuisance , it is usually cheaper and safer in the long run to run both systems together until you are 101 per cent sure that your new computer is ready and able to handle what you want it to . |
| 21 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |
| 22 | They were dissenters from and critics of the worldly values of power , pleasure , and opulence , and therefore in the long term the creators of the modern secularizing notion that such pursuits are irrelevant to religion and vice versa . |