Example sentences of "a long piece of " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 2 | In the end there was only one way of doing it and that was climbing up there with a match and a long piece of wire . |
| 3 | It is a long piece of detailed , even pedantic , research on higher education in Britain , which makes numerous descriptive comparisons between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , and attempts to understand the differences , similarities and changing natures of the two institutions . |
| 4 | A long piece of cord/string by which charts can be suspended by a bulldog clip , paper clips or clothes pegs . |
| 5 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 6 | The children sit in a circle holding a long piece of string , on which is tied a ring . |
| 7 | Pass a long piece of string through each hole and tie the ends of the string to a carving fork , so the meat can be suspended in a pan without it touching the bottom . |
| 8 | He took out a long piece of paper , and read : |
| 9 | Then the old man picked up a long piece of wood . |
| 10 | So , on a long piece of wood , I cut these words : |
| 11 | Taking a long piece of string , she dragged it to and fro through the mud , heaping it up and turning that into men . |
| 12 | We had a long piece of plastic tubing to help each other with . |
| 13 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 14 | The tocsin bell was balanced on an iron ring and from its great brass tongue hung a long piece of cord . |