Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grasped her long hair , so that strands of silk fell through his fingers , and tugged her head back gently , kissing her on her neck , muttering things that she could barely hear , far less understand . |
| 2 | It has for some years been established beyond doubt that Elisabeth used her long period as custodian of her brother 's works and papers ( during which time she wrote and rewrote his biography , as well as overseeing the editing of his works ) to misrepresent important aspects of his life and thought and , in extreme cases , to falsify letters and unpublished writings . |
| 3 | She dressed soberly , changed her clothes less often , coiled her long dark hair into its usual long glossy package which lay so neatly upon her neck . |
| 4 | A woman drew her long black hair out tight |
| 5 | He was smiling , if that could be called a smile that drew his long mouth out of line , plucking the left corner obliquely upwards . |
| 6 | The dog bared his long , sharp teeth , and raised one enormous paw to strike . |
| 7 | Monsieur le Curé moved his long fingers , which he clearly admired , over the skirts of his black soutane . |
| 8 | One heavily bejewelled hand stroked his long , white , unbraided beard , while the other held a silver riding crop — an affectation that was meant to symbolise his love of horses . |
| 9 | The man now bent his long length down towards her and said quietly , ‘ You tired , Lemon ? ’ |
| 10 | Confidently Sixsmith bent his long body into the booth . |
| 11 | Curry played on that sense of panic when intimately caught with the money-grabbing Spettigue ( Patrick Cargill ) or the more civilised Sir Francis Chesney ( Frank Windsor ) who eventually found his long lost love when the real Donna Lucia did arrive . |
| 12 | He let his long arm hang at his side , his fist slowly clenching and unclenching independent of his smile . |
| 13 | His round face , blue eyes and fair hair , plus a serious mien most of the time , gave one the impression of a junior Cambridge don , and he used his long facile fingers like a Frenchman , when explaining a point . |
| 14 | She slung her long loaves over her shoulder , a bread rifle , cupping its warm heel in her joined palms . |
| 15 | And then Saturday , it meant they got off on the Sunday and the Monday , they got their long weekend you see , when they reached the Saturday . |
| 16 | For some reason the simple outfit accentuated her long legs , and made her appear willowy and lithe rather than just bony and flat-chested . |
| 17 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 18 | Thomas Sachs received her longest letters and wrote the longest in return . |
| 19 | He unwound his long legs and stood up , arching his back and stretching . |
| 20 | Before she even had time to realise his intentions , he drove his long , powerful fingers into her hair , bringing her face round to his , and her squeal of outrage was silenced as he took possession of her mouth . |
| 21 | Andrew set his cup down and unravelled his long legs . |
| 22 | She noticed his long , powerful legs , the immaculate cut of his close-fitting breeches , his purposeful stride . |
| 23 | A leerie walked past , lifted his long pole , and opened the glass panel at the front of the nearest gas lamp-post . |
| 24 | The boy with cotton-wool hair lazily lifted his long arm towards the sea . |
| 25 | She opened her long arms and let them fall gently to her sides again with another smile , gesturing to a couch and taking a seat herself nearby . |
| 26 | She smiled at her stepchild and then for the last time dug her long finger sharply in Artemis 's shoulder , but Artemis did n't flinch . |
| 27 | Alice held her flamingo 's body under her arm , but the flamingo turned its long neck first this way and then that way . |
| 28 | As she took first one , then another slow step towards it , the horse turned its long white head , looking back at her , its huge dark eyes assessing her . |
| 29 | She curled on her bunk , admired her long legs , thought about desire ( not for the traveller in liqueurs ) , read part of Madame Bovary , part of Les Fleurs du Hal and all of a novel by Margery Sharp , bought on impulse at the Gare de Lyon . |
| 30 | Miss Ellis shook her long blonde hair back off her shoulders . |