Example sentences of "[verb] long [noun] and " 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 | Acceptance there involved long trials and modifications . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This caused long delays and confusion . |
| 8 | Most are vulnerable to the cold , since they can not grow long hair and a thick insulating coat . |
| 9 | Wear long trousers/tracksuits and sturdy footwear . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's got long hair and all . |
| 15 | A doll that 's got long hair and cries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There are different ways of doing this : one way is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two vowel phonemes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I was pleased to lose Long John and began to enjoy looking around this strange island . |
| 22 | To enjoy long afternoons and a dipping sunset , a southwest facing addition would be ideal . |
| 23 | If those historic innovations did , in fact , launch long booms and subsequent slumps , similar innovations would , within this framework , be central to our understanding of the position of the UK economy in the 1980s . |
| 24 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 25 | ( pl. 29 ) Usually symbolize long life and good luck . |
| 26 | Borrowing and lending of stock is facilitated by eight ( at end 1991 ) Stock Exchange Money Brokers ( SEMBs ) who , as well as acting as brokers in the actual loan of stock , make loans to GEMMs to finance long positions and stand ready to borrow from them any surplus funds arising out of short positions . |
| 27 | With a shrug of her shoulders , Charlotte rose and accompanied Ursula out through the kitchen and into the garden , where a calm and picturesque evening was spreading long shadows and rectangles of gold across the lawn . |
| 28 | Chief Constable Keith Hellawell awarded long service and good conduct medals to 28 Cleveland police officers at the force 's HQ in Ladgate Lane , Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket , and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh . |
| 30 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |