Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to get them various gigs at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street and the Roundhouse , and some dates at universities throughout the country , but there was n't an awful lot coming in although I did succeed in getting him a TV appearance and the producer , who was a good friend of mine , said , ‘ I 'll not have this guy on my programme with long hair ’ . ’ |
| 2 | No I do n't think so , I started my career with long hair and I like it like this . |
| 3 | All five hundred coolies from Number Three Village were drawn up outside their barracks in long ranks ; silent and apprehensive , they were wondering why they had been roused half an hour earlier and why the burly , intimidating figure of the plantation director , Duclos , was waiting to address the massed roll call beneath the single lightpole in the barrack compound . |
| 4 | Yields in general will tend to be higher for longer term investments , because lenders require to be compensated for giving up their money for long periods of time . |
| 5 | The company wants to open a microwave link between its headquarters in Long Acre and its main transmitter in Britannic House , less than 3 km away . |
| 6 | Headless Periplaneta and Schistocerca can be trained to flex their legs for long periods in order to avoid an electric shock . |
| 7 | We pray for those who are confined to their homes for long periods . |
| 8 | They discovered sweatshops and people working in their homes for long hours trying to erm patch together a very very poor living . |
| 9 | This was particularly true for those small communities , small towns , or groups of peasants , who had won their privileges after long struggles against a higher authority . |
| 10 | The majority of the indigenous cattle of Scandinavia are naturally polled : it seems that the northern stockmen , who because of the demands of climate needed to house their animals for long periods , appreciated long ago that horns could be awkward at close quarters and it is clear that polled stock were deliberately bred in Scandinavia from early times . |
| 11 | Any regiment may swap its bows for long bows at an additional cost of +1 point per model . |
| 12 | A regiment may swap their bows for long bows at an additional cost of +1 point per model . |
| 13 | This means the High Elves must rely on their bowmen and their magicians for long range mass slaughter . |
| 14 | Her work with long hair is excellent . |
| 15 | This season their battle for long distance honours goes world championship again with the action spread from Le Mans in France to Phillip Island in Australia |
| 16 | Studies of the 700-km 3 Bishop Tuff eruption and its precursors from Long Valley , California reveal distinct Sr-isotope differences between crystals and their host liquids and between melts erupted at different times . |
| 17 | They took the brain from her head with long hooks , delicately drawing the tissue out through her nostrils , and discarding it in a small brazier of red-hot charcoal . |
| 18 | The two principals she served under were men coming to the end of their service after long experience as leaders . |
| 19 | Together with inevitable involvement with patients and their families over long periods , this encourages a change of emphasis from diagnosis/treatment/cure to assessment/assistance/care . |
| 20 | She returned from hospital to her flat in Long Lawford , near Rugby , only two weeks ago . |
| 21 | While there , she indulged her passion for long walks and put together her first book , The Forty Shires : their History , Scenery , Arts and Legends ( 1880 ) . |
| 22 | That is a talent that followed him to the Foreign Office and to the Department of Health , where he helped Ken Clarke take on hospital doctors attacking their tales of long hours as ‘ fishermen 's stories ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ A large percentage have spent years hiding their arms under long sleeves and are highly embarrassed by the results of a mistake made years ago . |
| 24 | Did you notice how their attacker with long hair seemed to crouch down and try to catch the ball every time a ball came near , Fairclough was excellent at marking him , I think they wore the same pair of shorts ! |
| 25 | Those that do come are small pallid workers , inching their way in long columns across the floor and down the shafts to collect the moist mud that is needed for further building work . |
| 26 | The convoy , led by a police car and two police motorcycles , made its way through Long Island City , across the Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan then down First Avenue to the United Nations Plaza , the hotel where the Zimbalan delegation would stay for the duration of their three-day visit to New York . |
| 27 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 28 | Most prisoners are confined to their cells for long periods of time . |
| 29 | Low commented that the British in India spent much of their time on long journeys by rail , and their journeys were ‘ elaborate proceedings , not to be transacted in the casual fashion ’ customary in Europe : |
| 30 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |