Example sentences of "[vb pp] long " in BNC.

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1 She never saw her father again , but after Georg Wilhelm 's death a certain relaxation took place , her mother being permitted long visits to her court at Ahlden .
2 The team 's trips are organised long in advance , in minute detail .
3 This contrasts with humic acids which are rich in carboxyls and are known to complex radio-nuclides to form colloidal suspensions , which can be moved long distances by groundwater .
4 Only coal was moved long distances by canals , railways and roads .
5 Bowed long notes make good additions to organ pedal parts or timpani rolls .
6 Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree .
7 In the past year , 35 sites which were of ecological importance due to their plant and animal populations have suffered long term damage .
8 We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight .
9 He always brought two , ancient black leather bags that had seen long service , into which he packed with great method all the gloves , tweezers , thermometers and rulers that long usage had shown him he needed .
10 … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence .
11 If you 've got long hair ask your stylist to show you how to put it up .
12 ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Thirty-five , he is , and he 's just been told he 's not got long to live .
15 Now all the women have got long skirts and all the blokes have got really sensible haircuts , they all do oil painting and the music they like is shite .
16 If you 've got long hair and the bald patch is n't too noticeable , then perhaps you can wait for it to re-grow .
17 H A I R and that is the hair that 's on your head , I 've got long hair , dark hair .
18 She 's got long fair hair but she 's got a veil over it .
19 ‘ Besides , it 's got long sleeves , has n't it ? ’
20 They 've got long beaks like that .
21 One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell .
22 It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays .
23 He 's got long hair and all .
24 He 's got long hair !
25 Well her daughter 's got long boots on that has n't she ?
26 His old man is , has got long blond hair but he 's bald on top
27 He 's got long cupboards from the window right up to the ceiling .
28 today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ?
29 Yeah I do do you know I do n't like to see brides with their hair down if you 've got long hair i
30 A doll that 's got long hair and cries .
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