Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop lived in a fine red-brick house at the end of a long drive bordered with lime trees . |
| 2 | Reversed from previous years , the last 10 miles included a long climb to begin with and continued on higher ground , which was exposed to both direct sun and prevailing wind . |
| 3 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 4 | Stok 's temporary office was at the end of a long corridor lined with dusty panes of glass that almost permitted you to see beyond them into the honeycomb of bureaucracy . |
| 5 | A long conversation followed with someone I could not see . |
| 6 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 7 | ‘ I see in it a big step towards the achievement of these goals knowing that still it 's a long way to go with obstacles on the road that we shall have to remove — and it is possible to remove them , ’ Rabin added . |
| 8 | At the scene of the two-year-old 's death , a telegraph pole bears a long poem pleading with the killers to give themselves up and release the family from their pain . |
| 9 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 10 | Next we shall look at a long solenoid filled with a high-permeability magnetic material as shown in Fig. 3.9 ( p. 73 ) . |
| 11 | for a long weekend to do with er , every ten years there 's a garden thing in Holland , I do n't , forget what they call it . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 13 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 14 | Section 45 is a long section dealing with the ‘ course of transit . ’ |
| 15 | The body itself was late medieval , not wrapped in cerecloth but in a long linen shift with a narrow hem of lace ; the features were discernible , though bald , whilst the ‘ inside of the body seemed to be filled with some substance which rendered it very hard . ’ |
| 16 | At the far end , on a dais , was a long table crowded with fierce-looking men dressed in costly ermine and sable-edged cloaks , though , from where he stood , Corbett could see the glint of armour many of them wore beneath their robes . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , two microseconds is a long time compared with many things that happen in and around the atomic nucleus , and the muon has a chance to initiate several fusions before it dies . |
| 18 | He stood there silent beside the bench for a long time fondling with a wondering hand the unknown contours of his own young head in the stone , thinking himself strangely wonderful suddenly , and a terrible responsibility . |
| 19 | Suss collaborated at Clara Mosch from 1977 to 1982 and for a long time worked with coloured linocuts . |
| 20 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 21 | Thirty years was a long time to stay with one company . |
| 22 | The sedimentologist of the distant future will find a long trough filled with deltaic and fluviatile sediments with clear evidence of their provenance from the north-west and of longitudinal infilling like so many other trough.shaped basins up and down the stratigraphical column . |
| 23 | She spent a long evening working with Philip , as his assistant , handing him tools , holding steady the beam of a powerful torch . |
| 24 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |