Example sentences of "[adj] long [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another long pause and then he said unsteadily , " All right . " |
| 2 | Another long pause and , ‘ So you 'll call me soon , will you ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 5 | The probability is that beads from English Neolithic long barrows and enclosures and described as made of shale or inferior jet came from the Kimmeridge locality in Dorset where bracelets are known to have been made during the Early Iron Age . |
| 6 | You 'll do yourself an injury , I say , but she knows best no doubt for there is n't a day but she 's off for some long trip or other on the thing . |
| 7 | Well Cajun stuff and all that I thought , and then there 's them you can do some long kebabs and all that , that 's why if we get one of them charcoal grills that you can pa shoo , shee shoo . |
| 8 | Quickly stir fried long beans and silk squash make this a unique dish , good as a vegetarian main course or with meat . |
| 9 | and obviously she 's had a lot of bad experiences we ca n't go into now , but people , people do n't trust the drug companies because of all this long history and experiences . |
| 10 | This long neck and dignified strut makes the heron 's posture an enduring image . |
| 11 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 12 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 13 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 14 | Excuse this long letter and believe me , dear Sir , your affectionate Friend , Dorothy Wordsworth . ’ |
| 15 | She chose left , descended a further long flight and found herself facing a closed door marked ‘ Fire Exit ’ . |
| 16 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |
| 17 | These approaches ( directed primarily at the River plate nations and Mexico ) were thwarted by the difficulties of sustaining commerce over such long distances and by the political complications discussed above . |
| 18 | The Third Earl of Egremont , like Lord Ashburnham , took an almost daily part in the detailed management of his estates , building model dairies , attracting his tenants with favourable long leases and using , by 1810 , one of the first threshing machines in Sussex , although this was to cause trouble later . |
| 19 | Subsequently , SSAP 24 ( issued in 1988 ) introduced , and UITF 6 is in the process of introducing , major changes in the way these long term and somewhat uncertain obligations are treated in financial statements , with very significant deferred tax implications . |
| 20 | ‘ And you , Kraal of the distant South , must try to remember all I have taught you these long years and pass it on . |
| 21 | We 'll hand out some paper this is not to make one of these long lists or anything , it 's basically to help you to make some notes if you wi , require to do so . |
| 22 | Three long two-shotters and a trio of challenging par-3s hold the key to a good score here . |
| 23 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has shown , for example , that long stay and ‘ new long stay ’ patients ( those who have been in hospital between one and five years ) generally do well when they are discharged into the community . |
| 24 | The idea is that long vowels and diphthongs are composed of a basic vowel phoneme followed by one of , , ( in the case of RP ) . |
| 25 | She was tall long legs and a long waist — and was dressed in black . |
| 26 | And Nyasha and all her family and everybody from the village made a long long line and set off through the forest . |
| 27 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 28 | Good long throw and it will all be over . |
| 29 | Funnily enough , I felt better after a couple of pints at a pub in Maida Vale ; you know , the trendy one among Guardian readers which has the really stupid long name and brews its own beer in the cellar . |
| 30 | 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 . |