Example sentences of "be [verb] in a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 2 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 3 | The results will be implemented in a long term interpretation programme for the Park , a programme which hopefully will be adopted elsewhere . |
| 4 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 5 | They had arrived outside and her cases were deposited in a long silver car that Jenna thought must be a foreign make , probably Italian . |
| 6 | Their voices were rising in a long , edged , lifting cry like seagulls before a storm . |
| 7 | The cows were approaching in a long , strung-out line , plodding purposefully along beneath clouds of steam rising from their muddy flanks . |
| 8 | Somewhere , perhaps a mile away down the Beirut front line , shells were bursting in a long , low rumble that ever so slightly changed the air pressure in rue Trablos . |
| 9 | The best one he 's made in a long time , I 'd say . |
| 10 | The dry , rather large brownish seed is enclosed in a long , blunt wing or ‘ samara ’ , which , when it falls , spins and aids dispersal . |
| 11 | He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf . |
| 12 | A set of 32 items meeting these criteria were selected for a short form of the test , and a larger set of 150 items was included in a long form of the test . |
| 13 | It was clothed in a long striped garment resembling a priestly gown from which only the head , hands and feet were excluded . |
| 14 | Breakfast was served in a long , low-ceilinged room , with a deep fireplace , on which were roasting several animals which Snodgrass said , in an awed whisper to Fenella , were oxen . |
| 15 | He was dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace , with flounces all down the middle , and five or six more on either side of the chest , all sewn with wool , in accordance with an Act of Parliament which forbids the use of linen or cotton for this purpose . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was dressed in a long white robe of finely pleated linen , which was belted loosely at the waist . |
| 18 | He was dressed in a long blue robe which reached down to snow-flecked boots . |
| 19 | Perhaps the strangest talisman — and one ( or should one say many … ? ) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists — was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam , reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin . |
| 20 | She was imprisoned in a long silk gown , her face pale and rather beautiful , with dark circles around deep , exhausted eyes . |