Example sentences of "in a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider the following one-syllable utterance : those We can find the same tonic syllable in a long utterance ( still of one tone-unit ) : give me those |
| 2 | A professional cuckoo in the hybrid nest of lawyers , architects , engineers and surveyors was the ultimate beneficiary in a long story of disciplinary realignment . |
| 3 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 4 | A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall , gaunt figure , dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He said he had been unable to take it in moderation , and then , in a long illness , he was forbidden liquor , so when the habit had been broken he never returned to it . |
| 7 | You might like to explore this by mixing gin with pineapple juice in a long drink , or folding gin into the whipped cream for a pineapple sundae or hot dessert . |
| 8 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 9 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 10 | In a long feature by its news editor , it gave all the facts about the neutron bomb and the conclusions to be drawn from them . |
| 11 | Get set : Marathon runners will take on four-legged competition in a long distance run at Llanwyrtyd Wells , Powys . |
| 12 | Instead a meeting was proposed by the Utah University President Chase Peterson in a long phone call with the Provost of Brigham Young University during Friday 3 March . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |
| 15 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Professor John Vincent in a long assessment of Gladstone observes " He was appalled by frivolity , and frivolity was appalled by him … " something in the tone of his voice and his way of coming into the room that is not aristocratic . |
| 18 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 19 | She stood up and twisted her hair round her head in a long rope , pinning it high . |
| 20 | The searchlight remained fixed on us and a heavily muffled figure in a long overcoat and a steel helmet came towards us . |
| 21 | They came back on the Northern Line , a tall handsome man in a long overcoat and a man whose face was mostly hidden by an upturned collar and a hat pulled well down . |
| 22 | An old man in a long overcoat rummaged in a hotel 's bins . |
| 23 | By the time their neighbour had turned back , her cigarette lit and in a long ebony holder , both the children 's mouths were full of her home-made produce . |
| 24 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 27 | And my poor Clemence was about as helpless a female as you 'd find in a long day 's march . ’ |
| 28 | Peonies and the smaller varieties of shrubs grew in a long border , stuffed with other treasures and backed by apple trees , grown espalier . |
| 29 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 30 | In a long poem we expect to find breathing-spaces interspersed between the more important sections of the poem ; in The Prelude the real matter is the philosophy , and the narrative passages , as can be clearly seen here , are illustrations of it . |