Example sentences of "a long [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long windowless studio with neon strip-lighting set into the ceiling . |
| 2 | See after a breast operation does it take a long long time with stitches ? |
| 3 | To the left was a long low building with a blank , grimy whitewashed wall and a broken , galvanised roof . |
| 4 | A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Called Myrmecobius , it has a long thin snout for poking into ants ' nests , and a long sticky tongue with which it mops up its prey . |
| 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it , nothing else . |
| 11 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 12 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 13 | His habitual dress was a long black jacket with undone buttons , baggy grey trousers , a woollen scarf and an ancient brown bowler . |
| 14 | Vanessa produced a long black rod with a transparent sphere attached to the end . |
| 15 | I borrowed forty pounds from Malc 's Mum and bought myself a long black frock with diamanté trim and began to learn my trade . |
| 16 | There is a long black table with chairs around it for thirteen . |
| 17 | Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it . |
| 18 | On the west side , fronting the temple , is a long narrow building with ten or more rooms approached by a corridor . |
| 19 | The Rosanna Stuberl is a long established favourite with Enterprise winter and summer clients . |
| 20 | She pushed back a long fair curl with one hand . |
| 21 | This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck . |
| 22 | The outer room contained two wash-hand basins with a paper towel dispenser and , to the left of the door , a long Formica-covered counter with a glass above it which apparently served as a dressing-table . |
| 23 | ‘ In the end Becky helped me to choose a long beaded dress with a side-split and see-through sleeves . |
| 24 | To my delight , we stopped at a bothy , a long white cabin with a small door in the middle , deep-set windows and a roof of orange thatch . |
| 25 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 26 | Because , after getting the best of a long hard duel with Urizen , Goodshot Rich flew the last to win a thrilling race all out . |
| 27 | Ironically both Hughes and McClair ended a long lean spell with goals against Oldham last week and both have the chance to stake a further claim against Arsenal today . |
| 28 | When I first arrived , at the age of twelve , I was advised to try a family in Borgo delle Colonne , a long cobbled street with an arcade along one side , very typical of Parma , where a woman who ran a small dairy business undertook to look after me . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After a long preliminary chat with the man from the LER , Chapman decided it was time to press home the point . |