Example sentences of "long [noun sg] [pers pn] " 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 | That 's a dog lost from Bulwell on Sunday morning it 's a Jack Russell with er long hair it 's white and black and it 's twelve years old and it 's a bitch , seven five two seven nine O if er you can help there . |
| 4 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the long afternoon they toured the city Turnwise of the river . |
| 7 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 8 | . But they choose their own stories so you And if you , it looks like it 's going to be an exceedingly long story you can |
| 9 | After twisting our way up the long trail we finally reached the North Rim just after midday , feeling like redeemed souls struggling out of a magnificent inferno . |
| 10 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 11 | When David Rocastle signed a long contract he knew that . |
| 12 | From long experience he knew the hangover would pass before it was time for him to stalk on stage and rebuke Hamlet for grieving overmuch for his father . |
| 13 | From long experience he knew that one of the roads to problem solving was to allow time for the sub-conscious mind to operate . |
| 14 | She sensed the long look he directed at her , but continued to stare blindly ahead . |
| 15 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 16 | From January 1621 until the Long Parliament he was repeatedly returned MP for Bury St Edmunds . |
| 17 | Over the long term we can detect three broad tendencies : the conservative , authoritarian often expressed in the actions of social morality campaigns ; the liberal often in the vanguard of reforming activity ; and the radical , libertarian ; the first asserting the importance of absolute moral standards ; the second by and large seeking relaxation within a traditional framework of family values ; and the third advocating a transformation of values . |
| 18 | A and the , the justification for doing this would be that in the long term we will need the coal therefore it 's ne it 's necessary to keep er a viable coal industry going . |
| 19 | Although the number of cars registered in Wales fell slightly during 1992 , there was little reason to think that in the long term we will not be faced by an unsustainable surge in the number of private vehicles using Welsh roads . |
| 20 | In the long term we are looking for a measure of the relationship between debt financing and equity financing . |
| 21 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 22 | Sound argument based on long-term interest carries little weight against a sound economic argument based on short term interest ( " in the long term we are all dead " says Keynes ) . |
| 23 | I appreciate that the long term we gain as far as that property , yeah ? |
| 24 | This is the challenge for the brewers and their designers — to survive in the long term they must , in certain instances , address this radically broadened target market . |
| 25 | If we fail to build a healthy , living soil , chemicals will , at best , provide a short-term panacea ; in the long term they will ‘ kill the goose that lays the golden egg ’ . |
| 26 | They have no chance of winning the title this season and in the long term they 'll struggle to win the Premier League because they ca n't compete with Blackburn , Arsenal , Leeds and Manchester United … not only on the playing field but on the financial front . |
| 27 | Resident Simon Halliwell says ‘ This place is a gift for a person with a big ego and a big wallet and in the long term they wo n't be of any use to the island . ’ |
| 28 | In the short term , such equity based investments can of course be volatile , however , over the medium to long term they have consistently provided excellent returns compared with deposit-based savings . |
| 29 | But in the long term he opened the way to the great revolution in industry that came with the advances on his original idea , made by such as James Watt and Richard Trevithick ( qq.v . ) . |
| 30 | In the short run he wished to rally moderate Indian opinion , which had been put out of countenance by its non-inclusion in the Simon Commission , set up to review the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms in 1927 ; in the long term he wished to save India for the Commonwealth . |