Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] in a long " in BNC.

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1 A slight sudden puff of breeze lifted a thickly leafed branch in front of her and she saw two figures , framed by the foliage at the instant their lips met in a long , smooth , seductive and very mutual kiss .
2 She unfastened her own belt , and as her arms wound about his neck their lips met in a long kiss .
3 Their eyes met in a long , arching stare .
4 His preliminary architectural sketches hung in a long glass frame on the passage wall inside the cottage .
5 The displays are shown in Victorian cases housed in a long , narrow gallery running parallel to the windows onto Chambers Street .
6 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 .
7 The field stretched in a long oblong down the valley side , filling their eyes .
8 The strength of the individual features set in a long thin face gave him a striking and attractive appearance .
9 He was led to his seat by a young woman dressed in a long green velvet skirt and a high-necked , white lace blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves .
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