Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 2 | The young man began to show his expertise with the long whip . |
| 3 | Gaughan held his head in his hands after 23 minutes when Shrewsbury defender Dean Spink headed just over his own bar while trying to clear another effort , and the former Sunderland man forced Perks to his knees with a long range right foot shot . |
| 4 | She met his eyes for a long while , then nodded . |
| 5 | The maid stared into his eyes for a long moment and then suddenly turned away . |
| 6 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 7 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 8 | From Calais Gaunt took his force on a long march southwards , pillaging some of the richest country in France . |
| 9 | On the other , that he was not forgotten-that there were pockets of admirers who still cherished his books throughout the long years when they were out of print . |
| 10 | Nor does it seem that systems of information retrieval will come to his help for a long time , if ever . |
| 11 | He rose from his enormous desk and lit a big cigar — it could n't have been a Havana — and strutted around his vast office like a peacock , admiring his reflection in the long mirror . |
| 12 | Any Charioteer may swap his bow for a long bow at a cost of +1 point . |
| 13 | He sat behind his desk for a long time , skipping Sunday 's cold-mutton supper , rousing himself to say goodbye to the visitors , trying to deal with the paperwork of Sara 's business . |
| 14 | Edward , alone in his room in the long wastes of those summer days , looked back into the exercise books and noted his own absence . |
| 15 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 16 | grant him every advantage which we can conceive a white to possess over the native ; concede that in the struggle for existence his chance of a long life will be much superior to that of the native chiefs ; yet from all these admissions , there does not follow the conclusion that , after a limited or unlimited number of generations , the inhabitants of the island will be white . |
| 17 | But he joined the New Party and so it er he spiked his guns for a long while . |
| 18 | The violinist is airing his complaints in an interview at his apartment in Manhattan 's great culture gulch , the Upper West Side , on the even of his departure for a long concert tour . |
| 19 | As the curtain opened there hobbled from the wings what appeared to be an old Chinese mandarin with flowing blue robes , black silk jacket and red-buttoned Mandarin cap over hair that fell down his back in a long pigtail . |
| 20 | There was more wrong with Sheridan than ill-temper , and it had been obvious to his father for a long time . |
| 21 | He expelled his breath in a long exhalation . |
| 22 | LIVERPUDLIAN professional golfer Karl ‘ Hitman ’ Woodward ( 42 ) , was today aiming to establish his claim as the longest driver in the world . |
| 23 | A hideous , distorted , emaciated maniac without knowledge , without patriotism , without natural affection , spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture , and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain had become the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero , and the lives of Socrates and Cato . |
| 24 | He began his career as clerk to the influential local builder , Thomas Warr Atwood , and was his spokesman in a long dispute with rival builders over the design for a new guildhall . |
| 25 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 26 | He held her in his arms for a long minute . |
| 27 | He held me in his arms for a long time , kissing me gently . |
| 28 | Susan Bradley 's voice , at first apologetic then conspiratorial and finally close to tears , squeaked into his ear in a long monologue of complaint and desperation . |
| 29 | The other Rex put his hands to the long table-top , tore it from its legs and cast it away into the darkness . |
| 30 | Encouraged by his sister Julie , a night-club singer , he became an extra in films and graduated his way through a long succession of walk-ons to become a featured player in B-pictures . |