Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show her an old man with white hair and a long flowing beard and she 'll really think she is . |
| 2 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 3 | Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on . |
| 4 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |
| 5 | Somatostatin and a long acting analogue , octreotide , have received particular attention recently . |
| 6 | Just play around with the map for a while , together with a sharp pencil and a long transparent ruler . |
| 7 | Clad in a sparkly jacket and a long black skirt , wreathed in silly string and clumps and strands of paper streamers from party poppers , her long hair bunned , she enveloped me in a very friendly kiss , breathing whisky and wine fumes . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |
| 9 | Workers under this arrangement required much communication with management and close supervision , and hence rather narrow spans of control and a long managerial hierarchy . |
| 10 | No , he had n't forgotten Simon the carpenter , one of his more errant parishioners , a florid-faced , thickset man with an evil temper and a long Welsh dagger . |
| 11 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 12 | He had huge empty eye sockets wadded with cotton , a scraggly Fu Manchu moustache and a long grey pigtail . |
| 13 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 14 | He was wearing a peaked cap of brown leather and a long black overcoat . |
| 15 | The females usually have a small vulval flap and a long tapering tail . |
| 16 | His tiny , twenty-square metre gallery occupies the former gatehouse of Wormserstrasse 23 , where , since April 1991 Schweins has launched one-man shows of young graduates of the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie : giant woodcuts by Jürgen Stollhaus , sculptures made from typewriter keys and other objects by Jörg Koch ; elliptical polyester sculptures by Thomas Rentmeister ; drawings and sculpture by Monika Brandmeier and an installation of wine , salt and a long white chasuble by Milan artist Giuseppe Pipoli . |
| 17 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 18 | The man from the newspaper wore a black trilby hat and a long black overcoat . |