Example sentences of "on a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had on a long blue dress . |
| 2 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 3 | The film opened on a long lingering shot of sponsors ' lorries . |
| 4 | Mink had been seen in a small culvert created by a spring on a long grassy bank . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , ’ on a long stressed sigh . |
| 6 | Looking into her face he repeated her words on a long drawn-out breath . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Weather is everything on a long alpine route . |
| 9 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 10 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 11 | I am very grateful to Mr R. R. Mester for the following story of strange happenings on a long abandoned stretch of railway between Goldmire Junction and Millwood Junction on the original line of the Furness Railway . |
| 12 | They were towing a desert manta on a long black line . |
| 13 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 14 | Inside , under flickering rushlight , on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness , were the first trays of crusty bread . |
| 15 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
| 16 | The embalmers laid her flat on a long wooden table , and one of them , the master , took a sharp flint knife to make a long incision low down in her side . |
| 17 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 18 | Maybe it was close behind them and they were embarking on a long exhausting journey all the way around the Waste to reach what was near at their backs . |
| 19 | In schematic form : The arrows indicate an order of determination which is supposed to operate on a long historical time scale . |
| 20 | On the second day they gave her a rubber ball attached on a long elastic thread to a wooden bat . |