Example sentences of "long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And alertness that goes untested for too long decays into complacency . |
| 2 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 3 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 4 | Was it just electrical power — hence the staggering sight of all the massed Glories — or was it more to do with some human power the Worm had absorbed in its long sojourn under Monument Hill ? |
| 5 | In the event , he had become a Newfoundlander ; but in any case the Yeomanry 's long sojourn in Tunisia would not have satisfied him . |
| 6 | But there is no sign that Hugh had any influence on his thought before his long sojourn in Lyons from May 1099 to August 1100 . |
| 7 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 8 | There is a roughly similar development in 2010 , so the pattern may derive in part from Clarke , who has presumably imbibed some elements of oriental mysticism from his long sojourn in Ceylon . |
| 9 | ‘ It 'll save you the trouble of telling lies , and blackening your soul , and paving the way for your long sojourn in hell . ’ |
| 10 | It sounded like a sliver of a scream , caught in one long instant of time . |
| 11 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |
| 12 | Wee begin owr long March to Wimble wembley next tuesday when we take on hifiying Clutton Town in the preliminary liminary first Qualifying Round of the Fa cup . |
| 13 | Born in the coastal province of Fujian in 1904 , Chen began serving Mao in Yenan , the remote village in northwest China where the Red Army took refuge and regained its strength at the end of the Long March in 1937 . |
| 14 | It began as fashion — signified by the growth of long hair for men — and ended up as politics . |
| 15 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Luxurious long hair with lots of shine created by the team at Ocean Boulevard |
| 18 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 19 | She brushed her long hair into a shining mane and arranged it carefully around her shoulders . |
| 20 | She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck . |
| 21 | I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’ |
| 22 | Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor . |
| 23 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 24 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 25 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 26 | There were Gill that , Gillian , Hilary , and Lynn three lasses with long hair at school ? |
| 27 | Keep long hair off your face during the day — you 'll feel a lot cooler . |
| 28 | Christina pushed her long hair off her face . |
| 29 | Alex Orton-Green , 15 , of the Funky Junky Party , wore his long hair in a pigtail , and Robert Hutchinson , 15 , representing the Football Supporters-Normal Persons Party , was standing for everyone who thinks rugby is boring . |
| 30 | Kathy came downstairs with her long hair in what Helen called " the Gretchen style " : two plaits pinned neatly on top of her head . |