Example sentences of "a long [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 2 | He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production . |
| 3 | It would offer 26 places each morning and afternoon , saving some families a long trek to Corporation Road and even further afield . |
| 4 | It had been a dry summer but the pool was full and the young people , many of them travel-stained after a long trek from Portofino , were lying in steaming baths , their toes poised to activate the gilded taps . |
| 5 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 6 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 7 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 8 | A long struggle by writers to establish first domestic and then international copyright resulted not only in a new concept of literary property but new , or at least amended , social relationships of writers . |
| 9 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 10 | All wear the same type of loose shroud , a garment similar to a long nightshirt with draw-strings at the neck and wrists and a cuff deep enough to cover the hand while leaving the fingers exposed . |
| 11 | It was a long journey to Alum Bay . |
| 12 | Curwen 's interest in agriculture probably dated from a long journey through Europe following the death of his first wife in 1778 . |
| 13 | In 1954 it was a long journey by rail from Glasgow to Paris , and it must have seemed longer to me . |
| 14 | The wheel was in active service from 1960 , after a long journey by train from Argyll to Dorset . |
| 15 | He uncorked his canteen and took a long drink of water . |
| 16 | She said , feeling angry with herself , ‘ It 's a long drive to London . |
| 17 | It was a long drive to Dresden . |
| 18 | ‘ I fancy it very much , ’ she said , and checked her watch , ‘ but it 's well past three and it 's a long drive to Lisbon , so should n't you make a start ? ’ |
| 19 | Well , it 's a long drive from Essex … |
| 20 | The game was being played at furious pace and it was Richardson who was put to the test when he dived to turn round a long drive from Darlington in the thirty eighth minute . |
| 21 | That is why I allowed a long run on question 1 today — It was longer than I would normally allow . |
| 22 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 23 | There is a long run of teak grabrail on each side of the coachroof and the side decks and foredeck are skinned with laid teak , as are the cockpit seats and sole . |
| 24 | And there he has obstinately been retained , despite a long run of failure unprecedented in my experience among specialist batsmen . |
| 25 | Facing the front of the Post Office was a long row of seal-makers and scribes squatting in the dust with their customers . |
| 26 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 27 | Against the wall were ranged , in regular array , a long row of elm boards cut into the same shape : looking , in the dim light , like high-shouldered ghosts with –heir hands in their breeches-pockets . |
| 28 | He gestured towards the first of a long row of recuperation pods , where Christine LaFayette 's face was visible through a clear plastic window . |
| 29 | He put up his hands and found it was a long strand of seaweed . |
| 30 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |