Example sentences of "[pron] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling on a sweater and wrapping my long kilt around me , I made my way towards Sheikha Grandmother 's house . |
| 2 | When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’ |
| 3 | The battery on the ‘ bus ’ showed signs of dying and border guards were suspicious — I suppose my long telephoto lens did look a bit like an anti-tank gun ! |
| 4 | Again , I know this from my long experience of yoga . |
| 5 | In my long experience of this species , I have noticed that as long as you have only a few juveniles over 1″ , these seem to stop growing at around 1.25″ , until an adult dies , whereupon a young fish will fill the gap and grow on to adult size at a remarkable rate . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope I can give Gavin some help from my long experience of captaincy if he needs it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It was the beginning of my long road to the Olympic Games in Seoul . |
| 8 | In my long journey I may have acquired illness and age , but I had gathered something too . |
| 9 | But I 've , I take my long lie on a Saturday . |
| 10 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , to my long home — my last home . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't like my moustache and my long hair , they get at me whenever they can but I am not going to change . |
| 13 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 14 | ‘ Fetch me my long bow , ’ jeered the Lord Llewellyn , ‘ and I 'll shoot me that winter goose up there . ’ |
| 15 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 16 | And shivering , I awoke from my long sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ It somehow got tangled up in my long skirt . ’ |
| 18 | I have discovered , Miss Honey , during my long career as a teacher that a bad girl is a far more dangerous creature than a bad boy . |
| 19 | I give thanks to the Lord that he has seen fit now to bless my long devotion to the wind . |
| 20 | I need not go into detail about my long connection with Cornwall and my interest in Celtic history , which had this family origin . |
| 21 | So began my long friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and her writing . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman , er , I 'd like to thank you for those nice words of introduction but I am particularly delighted as I am a lifelong member of the G M B , of almost thirty five years ' standing , due to my employment with British Gas and my long membership with the Labour Party . |
| 23 | I have already described the Croydon Corporation case , which was the result of an epidemic of typhoid , and I have mentioned my long association with the Royal College of Psychiatrists , and the fact that my only medical qualification is as an honorary fellow of that college . |
| 24 | Monday brought a sad end to my long association with Glentoran Football Club . |
| 25 | I arranged a number of meetings with various staff : with the director of nursing services to discuss the status of the ENP and to look at her additional skills ; with our business manager to discuss possible auditing tools for the scheme , availability of statistics , and so on ; with the A&E consultant , to look at my long term training needs and the |
| 26 | ‘ I would have loved to join the elitist few who have made 500 League appearances and , but for my spell in the Conference and my long list of injuries , I probably would have done it , ’ added McDonough , who netted 89 goals in 460 league games . |
| 27 | The last number , in which there was no room for my long article ( which in any case formed part of a backlog ) appeared in January 1939 . |
| 28 | ‘ But in the case of Just You Dare it belongs to Cyril Murphy , the horse 's lad , and my long serving work-rider-cum-jockey Colin Nutter . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was wearing a flak jacket with bulging pockets and over my shoulder was carrying a bag with my long lens in it — it could have been a bazooka since no-one searched it . |
| 30 | I explained that this had come out during my long interview with Inspector Drew last night . |