Example sentences of "[adj] with a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was white and frilly with a long , long skirt . |
| 2 | It is clear that such a strategy would produce an incorrect parsing when a short word followed by a long word is homophonous with a long word followed by a short word . |
| 3 | Protosuchus — about 1.5 metres long with a long head and powerful teeth — was the earliest crocodile . |
| 4 | They are extremely strange looking fish that are about 8″ long with a long beak like protrusion of about 4″ long and they are black in colour . |
| 5 | Hofstede 's recent book proposes that the Far East Manager is much more concerned with a long time horizon for the team than is the European or American manager . |
| 6 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 7 | It is cruciform with a long , double-aisled nave , aisled transepts and a central , octagonal tower over the crossing ; the steeple is mainly thirteenth century with a spire , 215 feet high , built in 1475 ( 269 ) . |
| 8 | Check for level with a long board and builder 's level |
| 9 | A cropped and fitted jacket nips in to show off a neat waist and looks trim with a long line skirt . |
| 10 | Today at Cirencester magistrates court , John Gore , bearded with a long ponytail , was committed for trial at Crown court . |
| 11 | Only the experienced with a long Tiller record were considered . |