Example sentences of "[verb] long [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | speech is effortful , extremely hesitant , contains long pauses and is very non-fluent ; |
| 2 | Loves long socks and prefers to keep shoes on and arms covered up . |
| 3 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 4 | This seven-headed , four-legged monster also has long tails or rays attached to its back ( fig. 14.28 ) . |
| 5 | Mr X has long trousers whilst Boy has shorter ones . |
| 6 | Acceptance there involved long trials and modifications . |
| 7 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |
| 8 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 9 | But put aside the party point scoring and one indisputable fact emerges which will readily be agreed by all health service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty , willingness to work long hours and commitment to patient care . |
| 10 | This caused long delays and confusion . |
| 11 | Most are vulnerable to the cold , since they can not grow long hair and a thick insulating coat . |
| 12 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 13 | The children 's rides in Fantasyland ( Dumbo , Peter Pan and Pinocchio ) all attract long lines because they are slow to load . |
| 14 | The Profitboss might work long hours but , come Friday , he 'll leave the office at 5 pm. and devote the weekend to the family . |
| 15 | Wear long trousers/tracksuits and sturdy footwear . |
| 16 | Tonight many of them faced long delays as buses ran between Princes Risborough and Bicester . |
| 17 | Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens . |
| 18 | Do n't use long words or flowery sentences . |
| 19 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 22 | He 's got long hair and all . |
| 23 | A doll that 's got long hair and cries . |
| 24 | to do with the what the well we 've got instead of all these individual prints I 've got I 've got long ones cos if the |
| 25 | Now all the women have got long skirts and all the blokes have got really sensible haircuts , they all do oil painting and the music they like is shite . |
| 26 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 27 | Police have advised the expected 90,000 Nottingham Forest and Manchester United soccer fans converging on Wembley to expect long delays and to reach the stadium via the A40 and M40 . |
| 28 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 29 | There are different ways of doing this : one way is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two vowel phonemes . |
| 30 | Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists . |