Example sentences of "a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 2 | The Sherman brothers looked up to see the governor and their father talking to an old Annamese with a long gray goatee , who was wearing a black-winged Ming dynasty mandarin 's bonnet and a long embroidered gown of brilliant sea-green silk . |
| 3 | Legless Mike , trundling on tree-stump hip-pads , his one arm a long puckered cone . |
| 4 | If it suits you , you can relax with a long refreshing drink on the poolside terrace — and drink in the atmosphere as well . |
| 5 | That at least was the gist of what I gathered from a long complex explanation . |
| 6 | Mexico has a long culinary history and is therefore a must for any travelling cook . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 8 | The Cages formed a long connected line facing west . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 10 | ‘ Well thrown , sir ! ’ someone shouted from across the playground , and Matilda , who was mesmerised by the whole crazy affair , saw Amanda Thripp descending in a long graceful parabola on to the playing-field beyond . |
| 11 | Maggie now beckoned him towards her , and some what reluctantly he followed her along a short passage and into a long sun-lit kitchen , where a woman was standing at a wooden table mixing some ingredients in a bowl . |
| 12 | There was a long uncomfortable silence in which Pascoe noticed the missing duck , the broken china in the scuttle , and Alice noticed him noticing . |
| 13 | A long introductory essay discusses his themes in a chronological development and is followed by a catalogue of 455 works , with major projects and cycles , such as the Burghclere Chapel , ‘ Shipbuilding on the Clyde ’ or the Port Glasgow Resurrection series being treated in single entries . |
| 14 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 15 | Walter solved this problem by mounting a long flat spring between the check and the action frame at the treble end . |
| 16 | She is wearing a long fitted skirt of khaki . |
| 17 | Mr Nyers was speaking shortly after a long procedural wrangle on the method of electing the new leadership . |
| 18 | On their way out they opened up a tool-box and took out a long slender chisel apiece . |
| 19 | The drill itself is a different shape to most models , having a long slender handle and snub-nosed body . |
| 20 | Ten minutes later , at the end of a long downward-sloping track , the Waafery appeared out of the mist , the usual huddle of rounded Nissen huts , surrounded by the usual mud . |
| 21 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 22 | If one just casts an eye over the history of the condition of women — marked by struggles , it has continued to evolve , but at such pace that it seems that women who struggle for their liberation and at the same time for that of their societies , are undertaking a long drawn-out campaign . |
| 23 | If the air force chiefs could guarantee a quick kill and low casualties , both president and Pentagon could avoid the ‘ Vietnam nightmare ’ , losing public support in a long drawn-out struggle far from home . |
| 24 | Anyone confirmed as suffering from a prescribed industrial disease should receive compensation for their condition without having to wait for the findings of a long drawn-out court arguments . |
| 25 | Looking into her face he repeated her words on a long drawn-out breath . |
| 26 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 27 | He heard the French boy whispering urgently , then the chief grunted and plunged a long hollow bamboo rod into the ternum jar and drank a deep draught . |
| 28 | To cap it all , the Devil has taken over the church and sits impaled on the spire with a long snaky whip sorting out anyone who 's left . |
| 29 | Weather is everything on a long alpine route . |
| 30 | Koo Stark was out there in the powder room and seemed to identify with my predicament ; indeed she promised to procure me a long thin-necked vessel and return . |