Example sentences of "[art] long story " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 2 | Does it never occur to us that our lone position in this respect , over long years , may be the common factor in the long story of our economic decline ? |
| 3 | Elizabeth Catlett , now in her seventies , is a legendary figure in the long story of artistic relations between the United States and Mexico . |
| 4 | Israel 's history must be read as the long story of her attempts to fulfil her responsibilities — with some successes , but with many conspicuous failures . |
| 5 | But the long story of how this valley more or less governed itself , and in a profoundly communal spirit , is typically Pyrenean . |
| 6 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 7 | But the much more rigorous policy embodied in the Conservatives ' Industrial Relations Act of 1971 was a revolution in the long story . |
| 8 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 9 | ‘ A long story , ’ she said , ‘ I 'll tell you sometime . ’ |
| 10 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | ‘ To cut a long story short — I became a potter . ’ |
| 12 | Oz looked important and mysterious , settling himself as though to tell a long story . |
| 13 | To cut a long story short , Mrs Browning was exactly like one of the old ladies in Arsenic and Old Lace . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell you about it at dinner-time , it 's a long story , ’ I said . |
| 15 | It 's a long story … |
| 16 | So to cut a long story short , in the end I managed to drag myself away from this man . |
| 17 | To cut a long story short , the social worker focused on S 's non-school attendance , transferred the case to the education welfare officer and recommended removal of her name from the register . |
| 18 | Ranald , his shyness fading , started on a long story of honey and ants and his mother 's bed , that set Hector smiling , then chuckling , and at last rolling about with laughter . |
| 19 | Anyway , to cut a long story short , she wondered if we would like to take payment in part with one or two garments . |
| 20 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 21 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 22 | Well to cut a long story — |
| 23 | So , to cut a long story short , she arrives with this … |
| 24 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 25 | ‘ A long story , ’ Corbett , testily replied . |
| 26 | It 's a long story . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a long story , ’ said Nicholas . |
| 28 | To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre . |
| 29 | To cut a long story short , Agassi won , I skimmed my fingers raw by smoothing off mortar without gloves , but by six that evening — there was a definitely a pond where before there had been none … well , not for some years , anyway . |
| 30 | To cut a long story short , next time music retailers start moaning about the recession why do n't they take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves who actually feeds them ? |