Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] her long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked like a Cossack in jackboot-black sea boots , the skirt of her long dress looped up and tucked into the strap of a gold lamé handbag , the top half of her padded out by a fur-hooded anorak . |
| 2 | The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors . |
| 3 | ‘ Poor dear ! ’ said the nurse , hurriedly putting a green glass bottle back in the pocket of her long skirt . |
| 4 | Edith Cresson was 58 in January ; she is a grandmother but , judging by photographs taken at the outset of her long career , she looks better now than she did then . |
| 5 | She brooded over the strangeness of her long sight — over the seeing of far-away thins that came nearer . |
| 6 | For all her tempering in the fires of history , she remained an impassioned idealist to the end of her long life , though with enough self-knowledge and self-irony to be able to record what Milena Jesenska said about the difference between them — ‘ What an incurable girl guide you are . |