Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long kilometre or so later , I entered the city 's outskirts . |
| 2 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 3 | West gave that a long look but eventually ducked , deciding that East ‘ must ’ hold the ace of diamonds . |
| 4 | Coffin gave him a long look and he was n't laughing . |
| 5 | The place in which he found himself was a tall grimy building with a long passageway and the whole place reeked of cheap perfume . |
| 6 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 7 | Technology is changing our world so much that small groups of people through computers and elsewhere are able to determine vast patterns of human behaviour and so it 's gon na be a long struggle but through our struggle in Africa and your struggle here where we all want democracy but democracy 's only a process what we have to contend with is also power because ultimately it 's only when you 're able to exercise that power that you can deliver for the majority of the people . |
| 8 | Douglas , the capital , is a busy town by island standards with a long beach and traditional Victorian promenade . |
| 9 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 10 | I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me . |
| 11 | ’ It was a long journey but no more hazardous than any other . |
| 12 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 13 | If you are taken to Harmondsworth after a long journey and several hours of interrogation by Immigration Officers , there is nowhere for you to lie down and rest . |
| 14 | It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one . |
| 15 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 16 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 18 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 19 | He took a long drink and filled his bottle . |
| 20 | Its defects were emphasised by its proximity to Shrubland Park , a splendid Palladian mansion with a long drive and imposing gatehouses , which first-time visitors sometimes mistook for the RCM building . |
| 21 | Set back from the road by a long drive and framed by a crescent of trees , Mains Hall is both an imposing and yet secluded 16th-century manor house with a romantic past — it was here that George IV courted his wife to be , Marie Fitzherbert . |
| 22 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 23 | James , a £1.3million signing from Watford , looked set for a long run but his mistakes have persuaded Souness to take him out of the spotlight . |
| 24 | Sharif-Emami took on the job twice , the second time in 1978 ; Mansur was assassinated in 1965 , like Razmara in 1951 ; Amir Abbas Hoveyda , who replaced Mansur , had a long run but was eased out in 1977 to give way to Amuzegar , a successful OPEC hawk as previous oil minister . |
| 25 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 26 | Do these exercises whilst looking into a long mirror and do them smoothly . |
| 27 | ‘ Just when a player thinks he is past him , Pally will stick out a long leg and nick the ball off him . |
| 28 | We had a group photograph with a long time-exposure and a friend of mine , a dear friend , ran from one end of the back line to the other and had his picture twice on the same photograph . |
| 29 | It has a long history and in 1843 twelve Bronze Age artefacts and two portions of a sword were found whilst digging a drain . |
| 30 | The matter has a long history and is illustrative of how law can lag behind what is thought to be economically desirable . |