Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 I was treated like a long lost brother !
2 But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff .
3 She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen , which was belted loosely at the waist .
4 She was imprisoned in a long silk gown , her face pale and rather beautiful , with dark circles around deep , exhausted eyes .
5 They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk .
6 The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’
7 It is belted over a long overfold the lower edge of which makes a second horizontal accent , less marked and less regular than that of the belt .
8 Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day .
9 The best one he 's made in a long time , I 'd say .
10 At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them .
11 Situated on the outskirts of Cullbridge , it was reached by a long drive edged by trees and shrubs .
12 It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society .
13 But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it .
14 It was clothed in a long striped garment resembling a priestly gown from which only the head , hands and feet were excluded .
15 It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this .
16 In 1805 Jesty gave his evidence in London at the institute 's invitation , when he was presented with a long testimonial and pair of gold-mounted lancets .
17 He was dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace , with flounces all down the middle , and five or six more on either side of the chest , all sewn with wool , in accordance with an Act of Parliament which forbids the use of linen or cotton for this purpose .
18 He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots .
19 Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers .
20 He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf .
21 In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books .
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