Example sentences of "a long black [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 2 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 3 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 4 | A long black tunnel . |
| 5 | A slim fair-haired girl in a long black dress was threading between the ranks of spectators , holding open a bag into which people dropped folded-up pieces of paper . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 8 | A long black beard and a penchant for smoking cigars in the street were the outward signs of a nonconformity whose intellectual dimension consisted of enthusiasm for French utopian socialism . |
| 9 | From the manse the police took away the minister 's cloak , a long black cloak with a hood that he used for funerals , Remembrance Day services , and other outdoor events associated with his ministry ; they removed a broken cross , waiting in a cupboard for repair ; but they did not take the broken-off piece of that cross which was lying at the bottom of the same cupboard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The man from the newspaper wore a black trilby hat and a long black overcoat . |
| 12 | He was wearing a peaked cap of brown leather and a long black overcoat . |
| 13 | It was in this room that Princesse Mathilde , a dramatic figure in a long black hostess gown , welcomed them . |
| 14 | She wore a long black jacket dotted with outsize white buttons over a skirt of broad black and white stripes last night . |
| 15 | His habitual dress was a long black jacket with undone buttons , baggy grey trousers , a woollen scarf and an ancient brown bowler . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She looked even more head-mistressy than usual , a caricature , with a long black gown and a mortarboard that pressed down hard till it flattened the top of her head . |
| 18 | They came up the steps with a Coptic woman in a long black gown and veil . |
| 19 | Across in front of them cruised a long black Cadillac bearing the fluttering pennant of the Stars and Stripes . |
| 20 | Outside the front door of 112 , dressed in a long black cassock , black hat , and with black-bible in hand , stood Father O'Malley . |
| 21 | One half was clean and pale , and the other stained and dark , with a long black section sharpened at the tip . |
| 22 | Jeff Richer had choreographed the salacious routine , which began with me oozing down a cat-walk in a long black velvet evening coat and sliding it off my shoulders as I turn to camera revealing the lace gown . |
| 23 | The woman stirred the onions around a bit with a long black fork and then settled the large frying pan more firmly on top of the blazing logs . |
| 24 | A waterproof khaki bag to hang from one shoulder , a long black leather rod-case to hang from the other , and an assortment of neatly dangling nets , stools and bait-boxes . |
| 25 | Vanessa produced a long black rod with a transparent sphere attached to the end . |
| 26 | I borrowed forty pounds from Malc 's Mum and bought myself a long black frock with diamanté trim and began to learn my trade . |
| 27 | She 's wearing faded jeans and a long black coat and has a purposeful air about her . |
| 28 | Wears a long black coat , and a hat , and a skullcap under it , would you believe ? ’ |
| 29 | Once the choir had filed into their places there was standing room only , and even Mr Salmon , wearing a long black coat and deep-brimmed black hat , was among those who were to be found huddled at the back . |
| 30 | She had wisps of grey hair poking out from under a black lace bonnet and wore a long black lace dress down to her feet . |