Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A window opened with a long pole . |
| 2 | The ground floor consisted of stables , coach-houses , tackrooms and storehouses , while above , in addition to apartments occupied by unmarried male outdoor staff , was a room known as the Long Room . |
| 3 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 4 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |
| 5 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |