Example sentences of "[art] long [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 I love the long bare hills with just the odd clump of trees .
2 Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle .
3 But this will scarcely work , for it was precisely in this year , and perhaps as a result of the failure of Archbishop Ralph 's letter to produce any effect at the papal court , that the Canterbury monks claimed that they had ‘ discovered ’ the long lost documents with all the essential primatial clauses in them .
4 The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go .
5 To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders .
6 Pinching the centre of the long folded edge with one hand , bend the side corners of the triangle round into the centre so that all the corners meet together , to form a long pointed cone .
7 Dot waited and waited in the long brown corridor with nowhere to sit .
8 It was a long windowless studio with neon strip-lighting set into the ceiling .
9 See after a breast operation does it take a long long time with stitches ?
10 To the left was a long low building with a blank , grimy whitewashed wall and a broken , galvanised roof .
11 A row of buses waited outside the station to take the racegoers away to a variety of outlying motels , and a long new coach with darkly tinted windows was set aside for the owners .
12 The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked .
13 When Wyatt sent a plane to take Sarah to the fabulous Gazelle D'Or hotel in Morocco for a long expensive weekend with their mutual actress friend Priscilla Phillips , Andrew did not object .
14 Called Myrmecobius , it has a long thin snout for poking into ants ' nests , and a long sticky tongue with which it mops up its prey .
15 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 .
16 Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital .
17 He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it , nothing else .
18 He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf .
19 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 .
20 His habitual dress was a long black jacket with undone buttons , baggy grey trousers , a woollen scarf and an ancient brown bowler .
21 Vanessa produced a long black rod with a transparent sphere attached to the end .
22 I borrowed forty pounds from Malc 's Mum and bought myself a long black frock with diamanté trim and began to learn my trade .
23 And there is a familiar friend , a gigantic turbot , and a long black fish with an arrow-shaped head .
24 There is a long black table with chairs around it for thirteen .
25 Just inside the foyer there was a long narrow mirror with an almost naked woman painted on it .
26 On the west side , fronting the temple , is a long narrow building with ten or more rooms approached by a corridor .
27 The Rosanna Stuberl is a long established favourite with Enterprise winter and summer clients .
28 She pushed back a long fair curl with one hand .
29 This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck .
30 The outer room contained two wash-hand basins with a paper towel dispenser and , to the left of the door , a long Formica-covered counter with a glass above it which apparently served as a dressing-table .
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