Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting alone in the back seat Chris broke a long silence . |
| 2 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 3 | Hazily through his sense of nightmare and unreality Harry knew the long shape of the rack with its ropes and pulleys , and the blackened irons laid by the brazier , and the whips dropped into sconces on the wall . |
| 4 | Both he and his wife Margery had a long association with the Lake District . |
| 5 | The French had to give up New France , surrendering the St. Lawrence valley and the east side of the Mississippi ( except for a small area around New Orleans ) to the British , and transfer to the Spanish what was left , so the Spanish empire in North America took a long step forward to the north-east from its base in Texas and New Mexico . |