Example sentences of "[pers pn] be long " in BNC.
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| 1 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
| 2 | But I am long on stamina and waited for a red-breasted merganser aimlessly doing nothing under the cliff on which lay the dozing duo . |
| 3 | PEG : I 'm long in the tooth and short in the breath . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll be kissing the girls when I 'm long underground . ’ |
| 5 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 6 | And she 's working very hard I mean , wh yesterday she was here at six o'clock , so I was long home and Wendy rang from here and she was still here . |
| 7 | ‘ You will find , if you are long here , that , in this terrible spot , Mr Bodenland , the rain holds up , but seldom off . |
| 8 | Other sports that I would like either to see articles about , or receive info on from you are long distance riding and novice eventing . |
| 9 | At least the Queen was still on the throne and nothing changed there , even though she was long a widow . |
| 10 | ‘ Why , miss , I thought you was long abed ! ’ |
| 11 | We are long shots and we are approaching it that way . |
| 12 | We are long , slim-bodied carnivores with exceptionally |
| 13 | If you are fixing battens over existing rendering make sure they are long enough to give adequate penetration into the brickwork or blockwork beneath . |
| 14 | Most dolphins and small whales travel in groups broader than they are long , which allows them to acoustically scan as large an area as possible . |
| 15 | They are long , narrow strips of land surrounded on at least three sides by canals . |
| 16 | They are long ones . |
| 17 | These are magnificent ridge walks quite apart from the reward of a bagful of Munros , but they are long and arduous and for experienced hillwalkers only . |
| 18 | Mature adults are usually deeper in the body than they are long . |
| 19 | This is mainly because they are long stay hospital patients who have no informal carers , who have no communities to return to initially . |
| 20 | They are long and are capable of coiling vertically . |
| 21 | Erm what I have in mind to do my Lord , is to open the case now for you to indicate the scope of erm and will you then know , agreed that we would invite you to adjourn that for some time to enable you do some reading of the witness statement and expert 's reports because of course they are long and that would take considerable amount of with your Lordship is able to familiarise himself with the matter which is contained therein . |
| 22 | They are long chapters . |
| 23 | Particularly when they 're long way . |
| 24 | When you c when you 're going up the hills , they 're long gradients , you 're not really aware of them . |
| 25 | They had Sir Jonathan on the radio the day of the message saying they 're long on rhetoric and short of substance . |
| 26 | whether they send people on a course , whether they send people on a course because they 're long term unemployed and having finished the course then do n't get a job but they are no longer long term unemployed . |
| 27 | They that is piano hands they are , they 're short they 're long and skinny . |
| 28 | Does n't matter if they 're long in the leg . |
| 29 | Listen well if they 're long nails already they 're |
| 30 | Camping in tents and cooped up in those magnificent mobile ovens , the crews were understandably as short on fuse as they were long on indestructibility and tantrums were as common as stones through the windscreen , the motley band continued their unsung way across the tropic of Cancer while those celebrated and sponsored Paris-Dakar counterparts roared along to the west . |