Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the long [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britta shook her hair free of the long fingers and their slow stroking . |
| 2 | Like the long spade , the graft has a rounded blade but this is longer than that of the long spade and the taper is sharper . |
| 3 | One or two of the local gentry would be entering the wrestling ; several were in the horse races , although events such as the long leap and the high leap attracted less fashionable clients . |
| 4 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 5 | I am looking at two lots of 35 in the long waveband and one lot of 32 in the medium waveband. 35 and 32 what ? |
| 6 | The crews were given caffeine tablets to keep them awake during the long flights and sometimes we managed to get hold of a few . |
| 7 | He was sore from the long ride and , as he tried to walk the stiffness out of his legs , pacing in limited circles under the eyes of his guards , he saw that the man on the cart tail was watching intently . |
| 8 | They have the characteristic of never running dry in the longest drought or freezing in the coldest frost . |
| 9 | The teachers , however , decided that we needed to be kept busy over the long weekend and gave us lots of work to do . |
| 10 | It is one of the longest galleries and is approached by both ramp and steps . |
| 11 | Brachiopods have one of the longest histories and one of the best fossil records of any invertebrate . |
| 12 | They claim some 10-20pc of Britain 's electricity could be wind-generated in the long term and say every kilowatt of electricity produced in this way saves around a kilogram of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide being emitted from a coal-fired power station . |