Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 2 | Mr Ashdown has been quick to contrast his 55 walkabouts with Mr Kinnock 's ‘ three ’ , and he has put in the long hours with a soldier 's determination to ‘ get the job done ’ . |
| 3 | His fingers and thumb were stained with ink still , from the long hours with the quill that had assembled there at Dunblane the cartloads of tenting and weapons , of beef and pork and ale-kegs and mattocks , of campaign cauldrons and ovens , of sacks of charcoal for the blacksmiths , of meal for the griddles , and of oats for the couriers , horses , and the toisechs ' garrons , and the powerful mounts that the Normans , alone among Western fighting-men , were accustomed to ride into the battle itself . |
| 4 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 5 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 6 | I walked the long way with the early sun bright in my eyes and frosted gravel crisp beneath my feet . |
| 7 | But more immediately it reminds us that the imperial invaders played the role of the Persians ; that Barbarossa 's efforts systematically to reduce the cities of the north — and less systematically , those of Tuscany and Umbria — led to the formation of the First Lombard League ; and that the long struggle with the Hohenstaufen was one of the preludes to the formation of the civic empires which dominated late medieval Italy . |
| 8 | The long struggle with France in 1689–1713 meant an unprecedented raising of money for government purposes by methods such as the levying of a land-tax and the creation of a funded debt . |
| 9 | The club had another double champion in Catriona Slater , who won the inter-ladies 100m in 12.7 and the long jump with a leap of 5.45 . |
| 10 | Jan Irving ( Wirral ) was another to win at Derby , where he took the long jump with 6.64 metres . |
| 11 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 12 | One of the attractions for Englishmen in the long wars with France had been the prospects of conquering and ruling new territories . |
| 13 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 14 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 15 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 16 | The Japanese boy was playing the long hole with quite masterful wisdom . |
| 17 | It should be explained that between the ages of twelve and thirty the union of the epiphyses of most of the long bones with the shafts takes place , and by the age of twenty-four most of the epiphyses have united . |
| 18 | Relatively comfortable himself , Charsky suffered every moment of the long night with Kurz . |
| 19 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
| 20 | A dark torrent of human beings , chiefly men , gathered out of all the streets of the vicinity , had dashed unceasingly into the enclosure and covered the long platform with tramping feet . |
| 21 | In many cases the buildings show the Nordic influence of the long house with farm buildings attached , sheltering man and his animals under the same roof , and the gallery may be on the house or barn . |
| 22 | The long wing with its integral airbrakes is a legacy of Fouga 's glider-producing background . |
| 23 | She made it down into the long drawing-room with a sort of grim look on her face that Alain noted with a frown . |
| 24 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 25 | Ca n't you see a reincarnated Grace lashing the Long Room with scorn and fury on hearing the vapid 68 words that purported to explain this summer 's vilest scandal . |
| 26 | Strangely , she was no longer in the long room with the little door , but outside in a wood . |
| 27 | And there she was , back in the long room with the little glass table . |
| 28 | ( a ) Education. : A clear idea of exactly what coronary artery disease means is most important for the coronary patient if he is to comply in the long term with the advice that he is given , and understand what has happened to him . |
| 29 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
| 30 | Purists still demand the long trudge with the Atco cylinder-mower , the old one with the heavy roller and the polished-brass gas tank . |