Example sentences of "long [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Jarman asked , taking up an ivory hand on a long stick and scratching under her wig , starting a snowstorm of powder . |
| 2 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 3 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 4 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 5 | You might see brightly coloured clothes or long hair but at least you do n't see the same shoes , the same jeans or the same jackets by the same designer . |
| 6 | I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back , only at the fringe ! |
| 7 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 8 | When Hopper and Fonda arrived — Hopper looking rough and hippyish with his long hair and wild beard and stetson hat — some other youths who did not know what he was about began crowding in on him , saying , ‘ I can smell him . |
| 9 | She had lovely long hair and I 'd roll it up all in little merry widow curls . |
| 10 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 11 | Most are vulnerable to the cold , since they can not grow long hair and a thick insulating coat . |
| 12 | No I do n't think so , I started my career with long hair and I like it like this . |
| 13 | And their long hair and bare feet . |
| 14 | So it was pretty clear to the DUC that people from outside with long hair and beards were not going to advance the cause of the campaign . |
| 15 | The ‘ slacker ’ tag , that 's currently slung at anything American with long hair and a dopey demeanour , seems particularly applicable to him . |
| 16 | They carry neither shield nor helm , and ride to battle bare-headed to show off their long hair and beards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed . |
| 19 | Lizzy pushed her fingers through her long hair and yawned . |
| 20 | Kate ran her hands through her long hair and sniffed . |
| 21 | They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac . |
| 22 | Christina flicked back her long hair and concentrated on Pauline , who seemed for the first time to want to confide in her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I want to look like a racehorse and have long hair and Jim , that 's what I want . |
| 25 | If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers . |
| 26 | He was talking to a small wizened man with long hair and a curved bone through his cheeks which made him appear tusked . |
| 27 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 28 | They have long hair and long nails and , not unnaturally , a white pallor , and very little to eat . |
| 29 | She leaned down from the horse and he did n't flinch as she grabbed his long hair and shook his head from side to side . |
| 30 | A woman who loved him … a woman who had followed him … long hair and face coloured with white clay . |