Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] by a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Leslie 's train was to leave platform 3 on the far left-hand side of the station which is linked by a long subway . |
| 2 | Arguably he was known to Londoners less for his medical expertise than for his incredible eccentricity , which was exaggerated by a long beard , a predilection for extraordinary costume and his habit of riding about in the streets and Hyde Park on a white pony , which he sometimes painted all purple or , when the mood took him , purple with black spots . |
| 3 | The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns . |
| 4 | At Christchurch the original station was no more than a collection of sheds , but in 1877 it was replaced by a long Gothic structure — a rare example in the southern hemisphere — which looked like a succession of chapels at right angles to the platforms with a connecting range running between them . |
| 5 | Situated on the outskirts of Cullbridge , it was reached by a long drive edged by trees and shrubs . |
| 6 | Here again he was alerted by a long tradition of Greek search for barbarian philosophers and seers . |
| 7 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |