Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] in a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually , riders use all their body in a long ascent , willing strength from every limb into the legs . |
| 2 | She stood up and twisted her hair round her head in a long rope , pinning it high . |
| 3 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 4 | He expelled his breath in a long exhalation . |
| 5 | A hideous , distorted , emaciated maniac without knowledge , without patriotism , without natural affection , spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture , and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero , and the lives of Socrates and Cato . |
| 6 | He began his career as clerk to the influential local builder , Thomas Warr Atwood , and was his spokesman in a long dispute with rival builders over the design for a new guildhall . |
| 7 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |