Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a hot summer afternoon a few weeks later , Caroline trooped wearily home from work and opened her postbox to find a long white envelope bearing the logo of the Davis School of Design . |
| 2 | And Nyasha and all her family and everybody from the village made a long long line and set off through the forest . |
| 3 | The low sun made the street wall cast a long black shadow over half the garden , but it stopped just to the right of her patch . |
| 4 | In the tense silence that followed , Tam and Lan , who had their faces to the wall , heard their father draw a long shuddering breath ; then the first crack of the bamboo cane rang through the quiet room like a pistol shot . |
| 5 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 6 | Further colour and splendour is brought to the occasion by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers : the Pro-Chancellors , the Vice-Chancellor and the Chancellor , whose gown has a long heavy train carried by his page . |
| 7 | Because it has little executive power itself , the union faces a long hard road to have the motion adopted . |
| 8 | But last week , I was informed , the point of my anecdote about the documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — in which the German film director fulfilled a promise to eat the aforementioned footwear if a friend of his raised the money to complete a long cherished project — was rather lost since ‘ shoe ’ appeared on the page twice as ‘ show ’ . |
| 9 | This integrating combination has a long time-constant and for a momentary pulse output from IC2 does not allow the voltage across capacitor C5 to rise much above the ground . |
| 10 | The construction of the black man as rapist has a long racist history . |
| 11 | In 1665 a contested by-election began a long parliamentary career , Lowther representing Cumberland thereafter in every Parliament until illness compelled his retirement in 1699 . |
| 12 | On one side of the bridle path ran the long low flint wall of Dersingham Park , on the other , the estuary . |
| 13 | But many had anticipated far stronger growth following the long hot summer . |
| 14 | Ideal dairy land has a long growing season , no summer drought period , a stable soil structure with good drainage to avoid excessive poaching , and an unfailing water supply . |
| 15 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 16 | N. battus is characterised by having only one set of parallel rays in each bursal lobe while the female worm has a long pointed tail and the large egg is brownish with parallel sides . |
| 17 | There is no worse way to endure a long formal dinner than sitting trussed up and overheated in tight waistcoats and stiff collars . |
| 18 | Sweetman paused again , this time to light a long pale blue cigarette with a slim gold lighter . |
| 19 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 20 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 21 | The phrase reached its nadir when a British politician threatened a long hot legislative summer ! |
| 22 | The harpsichord began a long lute-stop passage , a new movement , as gentle as rain , the sounds stealing through the house , mysterious , remote-sounding harmonies . |