Example sentences of "long [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | D.G. Rossetti did not have a Christian conscience , but he was not immune from a sense of guilt about the long deferment of his marriage to his model and mistress , Lizzy Siddal . |
| 32 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 33 | And still she did not go , but hovered , touching with long fingers along his shelves of vessels , reaching up to rustle the hanging bunches of herbs overhead , keeping only her profile towards him . |
| 34 | She leaned back in her chair , raking long fingers through her hair and closing her eyes . |
| 35 | He ran long fingers through his straight dark hair while exclaiming impatiently , ‘ It 's a pity you could n't have thought to ask about days off . |
| 36 | He ran long fingers through his dark hair in a gesture of extreme exasperation . |
| 37 | But the attack , when it came , came from an entirely unexpected quarter , leaving her completely without defence , as in one easy move he thrust his long fingers into her mane of hair and pulled her to him , his mouth silencing the startled cry on her lips . |
| 38 | Kate took a long pull on her cigarette and sighed . |
| 39 | Aunt Tossie took a long pull at her drink . |
| 40 | Dalziel took a long pull at his pint and sighed happily . |
| 41 | Mr Beckenham took a long pull at his flask , and then carefully topped it up from the bottle . |
| 42 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 43 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 44 | Children who live in ‘ insular ’ families are therefore reinforced in their long fights with their parents as this may be the only predictable response they know their parents will provide . |
| 45 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 46 | Her looks perplex people , and much of her press involves long discussions about them . |
| 47 | We had long discussions about whatever we liked , and during term-time Don Cattabianchi would sometimes help us with our homework . |
| 48 | This was a need that Pat Bateson , Gabriel Horn and I had hammered out in many long discussions about our imprinting experiments , and which we had tried to meet in practice in the design of the controls we had used in the early 1970s . |
| 49 | His mother would become involved in long discussions with him about how she treated them both fairly and then would end up getting angry with his unreasonable attitude . |
| 50 | However the US administration appears resigned to long discussions before its target of the reinstatement of a scientifically backed sanitary code for the legal use of growth promoters is achieved . |
| 51 | After long discussions in which cyclists ’ opinions of horses were also aired , we agreed that in fact , riders and cyclists have many aims in common : both want traffic-free , cross-country routes . |
| 52 | All the Scheme authors are practising teachers , teacher-trainers , or researchers with long experience of their subject and the classroom . |
| 53 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 54 | Under these arrangements most students take special mature matriculation examinations , although a few are admitted on the basis of long experience in their field or professional qualifications . |
| 55 | Sam took a long look at her face . |
| 56 | Take a good long look at yourself in a mirror , with and without the wrongly-sized items . |
| 57 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 58 | Watching it takes you into the mind of Ramanujan as surely as a long look into his eyes . |
| 59 | Cindy gave him a long look through her sunglasses . |
| 60 | He frowned at me with a long look in which I read nothing . |