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Example sentences of "long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ?
2	Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked .
3	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 ?
4	In the event , he had become a Newfoundlander ; but in any case the Yeomanry 's long sojourn in Tunisia would not have satisfied him .
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	‘ It 'll save you the trouble of telling lies , and blackening your soul , and paving the way for your long sojourn in hell . ’
9	It sounded like a sliver of a scream , caught in one long instant of time .
10	The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment .
11	It began as fashion — signified by the growth of long hair for men — and ended up as politics .
12	He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers .
13	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 .
14	Luxurious long hair with lots of shine created by the team at Ocean Boulevard
15	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 .
16	She brushed her long hair into a shining mane and arranged it carefully around her shoulders .
17	She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck .
18	I 'll pull that long hair of yours if you do n't obey me at once ! ’
19	Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor .
20	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 .
21	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 .
22	He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head .
23	There were Gill that , Gillian , Hilary , and Lynn three lasses with long hair at school ?
24	Keep long hair off your face during the day — you 'll feel a lot cooler .
25	Christina pushed her long hair off her face .
26	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 .
27	Kathy came downstairs with her long hair in what Helen called " the Gretchen style " : two plaits pinned neatly on top of her head .
28	As Theda followed , she began automatically to braid her long hair in a loose plait , searching among the tangle at her scalp for any pins that might have been left after the tresses had come loose from their moorings .
29	of twisted sheets , your long hair in the night .
30	We met the students on Sunday — had dinner with them in the Sichuan restaurant , as I said , and they turned out to be very pleasant , one girl ( whose blonde hair must strike the Chinese with amazement ) and three men , sporting their long hair in defiance of the Chinese preference for short back-and-sides .