Example sentences of "long [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To give some idea of just how long Tom Weiskopf could hit a ball — and he was the longest driver of his time — Tommy Horton , who was playing with us , needed a driver and 4-iron at the 17th . |
| 2 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 3 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 4 | The longest period for which an order book can be issued to an asylum seeker who makes a successful application for income support is 20 weeks . |
| 5 | And , again , the monkeys , like ourselves , are still more lizards than anything else ; for , as Carl Sagan points out , by far the longest period of our air-breathing history was spent evolving through the Age of Reptiles . |
| 6 | After my first day I felt really tired when I got home , as that day was the longest day of my life . |
| 7 | Dawn was breaking over Labour 's headquarters in Walworth Road , south London , yesterday as Mr Kinnock stepped on to the balcony , his face ghostly white in the television arc lights and his lips drawn tightly after the longest night of his career , writes Jon Hibbs . |
| 8 | In 1912 , according to the Standard , Henley was a rare record — the longest hole in one ! |
| 9 | No-one ever spends much time thinking about the longest holiday of their lifetime — retirement — until a few years before the big day actually arrives . |
| 10 | You need a strategy designed to provide the money for what many see as ‘ the longest holiday of your life ’ . |
| 11 | Have you planned for the longest holiday of your life — your retirement ? |
| 12 | Er now , on another topic , I will go back to the idea of regulation later , you 'll see that life expectancy is obviously important and er when you 're looking at retirement I mean it 's always been described as the longest holiday of your life and it certainly is that , and life expectancy is rising all the time , these figures have actually been superseded . |
| 13 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |
| 14 | Bullied into bathing , Theda allowed Agnes to wash her long hair for her , and acquiesced when that redoubtable dame dragged a chair outside that she might sit and dry it in the sun . |
| 15 | Luxurious long hair with lots of shine created by the team at Ocean Boulevard |
| 16 | I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’ |
| 17 | Christina pushed her long hair off her face . |
| 18 | Keep long hair off your face during the day — you 'll feel a lot cooler . |
| 19 | Kathy came downstairs with her long hair in what Helen called " the Gretchen style " : two plaits pinned neatly on top of her head . |
| 20 | Almost immediately she pulled herself together and swept her long hair from her face with both hands . |
| 21 | At last Fernando moved , rolling himself slightly away from her to remove strands of her long hair from his jacket and smoothing them back where they belonged , down the side of her face . |
| 22 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 23 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 24 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 25 | There was a very long story about him and Donald in the Rose and Thorn , a short , rather vulgar anecdote about something that had happened to Donald 's wife while crossing Wimbledon Common and a boastful piece about how he , Henry , had amused some French sailors in the bar at the Mini Golf , Boulogne sur Mer . |
| 26 | Israel 's history must be read as the long story of her attempts to fulfil her responsibilities — with some successes , but with many conspicuous failures . |
| 27 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 28 | Does it never occur to us that our lone position in this respect , over long years , may be the common factor in the long story of our economic decline ? |
| 29 | Also , if , by the end of the day , he had not left the house without her permission , she would read an extra long story to him . |
| 30 | Most of the weight is of course accounted for by Berilia , Tubul , Great T'Phon and Jerakeen , the four giant elephants upon whose broad and star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests , garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven . |