Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a long [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family likeness can be seen among all the boys , every face dominated by a long curved nose . |
| 2 | In the light from the lamp the child blinked his weary eyes , his question muffled by a long noisy yawn . |
| 3 | Lawyers , prepared for a long High Court battle , are now working on a settlement which could bring an abject apology from BA . |
| 4 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 5 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 6 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 7 | People were most conscious of how far they were from their family in times of crisis , when someone was sick or dying and they were a couple of continents away separated by a long slow haul by boat and train . |
| 8 | I was treated like a long lost brother ! |
| 9 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 10 | That the choleretic response to feeding is abolished by vagotomy suggests that this secretory event may possibly be mediated by a long vago-vagal reflex ( similar to the increased production of gastric acid secondary to gastric distension ) , or that it may be a true cephalic phase event . |
| 11 | Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer , a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a train waiting at the Gare Maritime of Ostend with a through carriage to Berlin , reached by a long overnight journey across the flat plains of northern Europe . |
| 14 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 15 | Although an operation on his upper jaw at Leicester Infirmary in about 1882 had removed most of the bony ‘ trunk ’ protruding from his mouth , his appearance was so repulsive that he could only go outside heavily disguised in a long black cloak , a peaked cap , and a mask . |
| 16 | Although many kinds of trace fossil are known from a long geological time span , some are confined to the Cambrian and could record extinct body plans , as well as details of early metazoan activities such as locomotion and feeding . |
| 17 | The strength of the individual features set in a long thin face gave him a striking and attractive appearance . |
| 18 | It was clothed in a long striped garment resembling a priestly gown from which only the head , hands and feet were excluded . |
| 19 | Through all the turnings of his thoughts one image dogged him — Colberg 's face , so sharply carved , his eyes a wee bit slanting at the corners , his nostrils cut on a long shallow curve , his forehead not rounded but angled above the glossy black hairs at the outside ends of his eyebrows . |
| 20 | The replicative cycle of ASFV , consisting first of a nuclear stage followed by a longer cytoplasmic phase of DNA replication ( 5 ) , is more complex than that of poxviruses , secluded to the cell cytoplasm ( reviewed in ( 6 ) ) . |
| 21 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 22 | This was established in 1939 by some of those involved in the Moot , and under the editorship of Oldham it consisted of a number of editorials combined with a long signed article from writers like Reinhold Niebuhr , Karl Barth and Dorothy L. Sayers . |
| 23 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 24 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |
| 25 | Good choices for bathroom lighting are enclosed ceiling-mounted lights or swivelling recessed eyeball spotlights ; pendant lighting should only be used if the lampholder is fitted with a long protective skirt . |
| 26 | He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots . |
| 27 | He was a tall , thin man of indeterminate age with hairless grey skin and dressed in a long black robe without ornament save for a small silver fork with twisted tines which hung on a piece of string round his neck , and rested on the black breast of the robe . |
| 28 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 29 | Outside the front door of 112 , dressed in a long black cassock , black hat , and with black-bible in hand , stood Father O'Malley . |
| 30 | She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen , which was belted loosely at the waist . |