Example sentences of "[prep] a long [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 2 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |
| 3 | Stripping and ligation of varicose veins involves the insertion into the vein of a long flexible tube with a head at one end ( a " stripper " ) , which is pulled through and out at the groin incision tearing the vein from the surrounding tissue . |
| 4 | Because , after getting the best of a long hard duel with Urizen , Goodshot Rich flew the last to win a thrilling race all out . |
| 5 | When Wyatt sent a plane to take Sarah to the fabulous Gazelle D'Or hotel in Morocco for a long expensive weekend with their mutual actress friend Priscilla Phillips , Andrew did not object . |
| 6 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 7 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 8 | 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 . |