Example sentences of "long [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had pinned her long hair up in an elegant knot on top of her head , and was wearing a chic little number which Alexandra recognized immediately as a Thierry Mugler . |
| 2 | She ducked under the water and emerged , pushing her long hair away from her face . |
| 3 | This process can work out expensive but you can achieve the look of long hair instantly ! |
| 4 | See like , long hair here , so it 's hanging down , scraggily , so you 've got like a shaved head , with all these bits here ai n't ya ? |
| 5 | Her long hair there ! |
| 6 | Has n't she got long hair now though ? |
| 7 | got erm long hair actually . |
| 8 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a middle-aged guy and I was beginning to think that he never saw a guy with long hair before . |
| 10 | He was tall and skinny , with a high bald forehead and a mantle of long hair halfway down his back . |
| 11 | You 've got long hair too , black hair which you push impatiently away from your face with one hand while gesticulating with the other to make a point as you talk . |
| 12 | Because one week we had one from a long bit ago but I did n't see the rest through the week . |
| 13 | Injection of the mother with a mitotic arrestant many hours before embryo recovery will increase the proportion containing mitotic divisions but long exposure also leads to excessive chromosome contraction which makes analysis difficult . |
| 14 | Figure 18.9(a) and ( b ) have general illumination , ( a ) with a relatively long exposure so that details of the instability are blurred and ( b ) as a flash so that an instantaneous pattern is seen . |
| 15 | The embalmers laid her flat on a long wooden table , and one of them , the master , took a sharp flint knife to make a long incision low down in her side . |
| 16 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 17 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 18 | and to cut a long story short , we went to see three possible funders , er funder one was T S B Foundation , where to cut a long story short I 'm pretty sure that T S B er we , we have to put an application in for October I think we 'll , we 'll buy us another system |
| 19 | To cut a long story short his mate tried to open the bridge the wrong way and the boat drifted down and hit it . |
| 20 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 21 | The 140 mile long route eventually finishes in Oakham , Leicestershire after passing Rutland Water . |
| 22 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 23 | It was not unusual for the orderer of the Boozebuster to specify a long route back to the office to give the victim 's fellow revellers time to get back ahead of him . |
| 24 | A long pull up to the summit , Carn Dearg pays a dividend of an uninterrupted view north and east , to Loch Pattack , the snaking gash of Loch Ericht and , as I mentioned , south to offer a clear perception of the hanging valley of Ben Alder . |
| 25 | From the Lamb it is on and up again to the Shoulder of Mutton for the last pint , and then the long pull up to the finish at the Dog and Gun . |
| 26 | On Monday we left for Fort William and the long trek up Loch Linnhe . |
| 27 | We saw our chance , and hastily we packed up and prepared for the long trek back the way we had come , to the Youth Hostel . |
| 28 | And me mum 's is long play an'all now . |
| 29 | In there you 'll find a sink on the floor , just large enough to stand in , and you can have a good long soak up to your knees . |
| 30 | This was a long struggle indeed , small fields being literally carved out of the landscape by fire , hacking and sheer brute force . |