Example sentences of "the [noun sg] with [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat was ready to leave now and two members of its small crew began casting off , one of them pushing the boat away from the quayside with a long boat-hook . |
| 2 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 3 | She handed Jack the syringe with the long needle , and he slid it neatly between the ribs and into the heart while Kath injected the other drugs into the giving set in his arm . |
| 4 | When bonds came on the market after this time they were sold quietly by the Bondholders Committee to members of the Club with a long term , proven interest in its affairs , who had either enquired about bonds or were offered them being regarded as suitable individuals . |
| 5 | relevant partners , these are existing partners which includes county council and government departments to prepare a report detailing us what assistance can be given to the er , er redevelopment of the site with a long term opportun employment opportunities . |
| 6 | Ball of the foot : The weapon with the longest range very versatile and effective , especially when followed with hand or knee blows . |
| 7 | Despite taking the lead with a long range volley from Nick Pickering , Huddersfield scored three times to take the points back to Yorkshire . |
| 8 | The elongated body of the scorpion is armed at one end with two powerful claws and at the other with a long tail terminating in a sting . |
| 9 | What Katherine found daunting was the ambience within : the large unsmiling woman who sat at a table in the entrance hall and stiffly handed her two sheets of paper , one with a map of the school which showed her own room clearly marked , the other with a long list of instructions printed in four languages , French , German , Italian and English ; a smell which mingled disinfectant and scouring soap ; the difference in temperature between the stifling main body of the school and the chill of the outlying wing where she found her room . |
| 10 | A new way of wearing the toga was developed , hitching the voluminous garment off the ground with a long fold ( the sinus ) below the right arm . |
| 11 | In a case like this , it might be best to keep most of the kitchen part of the room to one wall and hive it off from the rest of the area with a long island unit which could incorporate extra work and storage space and possibly a cook top , sink and refrigerator as well . |
| 12 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 13 | Relative tail lengths are based on three specimens per species of the sex with the longest tail ( males in 13 species ; females in one hummingbird showing reversed sexual dimorphism ) . |
| 14 | The organization with the longest track record in matching angels to companies is the publisher of venture capital report . |
| 15 | Typically one value of the short operation code field marks an " escape " into the format with the longer operation code field . |
| 16 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
| 17 | Olsen hopes that Taylor does not go all the way with the long ball game and play big , powerful strikers like Brian Deane and David Hirst . |
| 18 | Well , is n't that what you 'd expect from the company with the longest pedigree in pet healthcare ? |
| 19 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 20 | ‘ A cape of the same colour and material as the coat , and reaching to the tips of the fingers when the arm is extended , having a rolling collar of velvet 3 inches broad , and closing at the throat with a long loop … may be worn by all officers when not on duty with troops under arms . ’ |