Example sentences of "in a long [noun sg] with " in BNC.

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1	Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor .
2	Max rang to wish me a merry one , followed by Lee and my sister-in-law , Maureen , and while Kenneth snoozed beside me I rang my ‘ lot ’ , culminating in a long chat with my lovely ex mom-in-law .
3	As the Soviets became involved in a long struggle with Afghan guerrillas , similar in some respects to America 's involvement in Vietnam , Carter began to take punitive measures against Moscow but without fully consulting his NATO allies .
4	They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area .
5	He first meets Pistol , that illegitimate verse-speaker , in a bizarre confrontation ( Henry V , IV.i.35–63 ) , but then becomes involved in a long discussion with soldiers Williams and Bates on the rights and wrongs of war , and the responsibility of the ruler for the death of his people .
6	It has also , strangely , given my mother a measure of freedom — the freedom through him to be the sort of woman she had , perhaps , suppressed in a long marriage with four children .
7	In a long meeting with President Yeltsin in Moscow on 20 January I discussed economic reform , security questions including non-proliferation , the Commonwealth of Independent States , and relations between Britain and Russia .
8	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 .
9	In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ .
10	Mrs Hobbs was on the terrace of the hotel , lying in a long chair with her legs up .

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