Example sentences of "long [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was receding a bit , and ‘ with long hair I always looked pretty and I do n't like being pretty — I wanted a bit more of a hard image ’ . |
| 2 | The , long hair I reckon . |
| 3 | Erm , two er three points would I like , erm , picking up a couple of comments earlier , and coming back to a , I think if we use a cricketing analogy , a long hop I 'd like to bowl at you Chair , and you may hit it in Mr Wincup 's direction . |
| 4 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 5 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 6 | So if I 'm going to think long term I 've got to got to work |
| 7 | So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit . |
| 8 | Then in the long run I did in fact to Superintendent about the information we had gleaned from this telephone call . |
| 9 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 10 | Well when , that 's what I said to , er Paula people should always go to that village shop because in the long run I know it might cost you more , but the hassle and everything , the only thing is they have n't got the variety |
| 11 | You see them much more as people , you know their interests much more than if they are just there listening to the lesson and so in a way this open access to the teacher , I think , although at times it does give extra pressure in the long run I think it 's tremendously beneficial . |
| 12 | In the long run I think it will be a loss to the Government , for the very simple reason we have got to meet this competition and if we do n't in a few years time the housewife possibly will be paying a lot more money for the produce . |
| 13 | In the long run I think this is probably the most exciting investment that we have been privileged to have in the town , and this really confirms Telford 's position as number one Japanese investment in the United Kingdom ; we now have 20 companies here . |
| 14 | For two long years I lived the life of a slave . |
| 15 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 16 | Anyway , we 'll take a cab , it 'll be a long night I expect . |
| 17 | These articles are addressed to practitioners and for a long while I have been urging practitioners towards a greater involvement in the education of the profession 's next generation . |
| 18 | ‘ For a long while I did n't go out that much . |
| 19 | At the end of the week , observers were optimistic , yet some still sounded a cautionary note : ‘ This is the first time for a long while I have seen people saying ‘ I want this drawing or painting ’ without any idea of speculation ’ , says Jan Krugier , ‘ but now we must keep control of the situation . |
| 20 | B : oh they were on a long while I think before that + |
| 21 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 22 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 23 | After such a long day I thought of my wife and son with ‘ What have I done ? ’ running through my head as I dropped off to sleep . |
| 24 | Long lease I expect . |
| 25 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 26 | Going to be a long journey I would think cos it 's an hour and a half from here to Scarborough on the bus . |
| 27 | That 's quite a long list I think . |
| 28 | After a long silence I said , ‘ Please ask a maid to show me my bedroom . |
| 29 | For long stretches I walked with my eyes on the ground , mesmerized by the silence of the forest , by my own soundless footsteps . |
| 30 | Well okay , I need to say that when it 's long reports I have no problem , I mean since I 've lost Doreen and come under Tracey the quality and speed that I get typing back is much improved . |