Example sentences of "[prep] a long wooden [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | These then developed into the trebuchet , which had a sling at one end of a long wooden arm . |
2 | It consisted of a long , narrow , steel spear head , with a long wooden shaft reinforced by strips of metal . |
3 | One Monday morning I lay in bed looking out of my skylight window at nothing in particular ; there was n't anything to see except sky because the window was merely a hole in the roof which you could open or shut with a long wooden handle . |
4 | Inside , under flickering rushlight , on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness , were the first trays of crusty bread . |
5 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
6 | 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 . |