Example sentences of "[prep] a long black [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 2 | She looked even more head-mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . |
| 3 | One half was clean and pale , and the other stained and dark , with a long black section sharpened at the tip . |
| 4 | The woman stirred the onions around a bit with a long black fork and then settled the large frying pan more firmly on top of the blazing logs . |
| 5 | A slim fair-haired girl in a long black dress was threading between the ranks of spectators , holding open a bag into which people dropped folded-up pieces of paper . |
| 6 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 7 | Although an operation on his upper jaw at Leicester Infirmary in about 1882 had removed most of the bony ‘ trunk ’ protruding from his mouth , his appearance was so repulsive that he could only go outside heavily disguised in a long black cloak , a peaked cap , and a mask . |
| 8 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 9 | They came up the steps with a Coptic woman in a long black gown and veil . |
| 10 | It was in this room that Princesse Mathilde , a dramatic figure in a long black hostess gown , welcomed them . |
| 11 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 12 | Meg Dennison was in a long black skirt and a blue patterned silk blouse with a bow at the neck . |
| 13 | Outside the front door of 112 , dressed in a long black cassock , black hat , and with black-bible in hand , stood Father O'Malley . |
| 14 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 15 | They were towing a desert manta on a long black line . |