Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's also why I like having long hair , it 's so versatile . |
| 2 | I aimed to get long straight hair — but it was really bouffant growing out . |
| 3 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 4 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 5 | H A I R and that is the hair that 's on your head , I 've got long hair , dark hair . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree . |
| 8 | Kendall said last night : ‘ I have had long talks with Peter and I am optimistic that I can get him to come to City . |
| 9 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 10 | Ventura is an excellent package to use if you want to create long and fairly regular documents like technical manuals or books . |
| 11 | Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development . |
| 12 | Lynda says that she did think long and hard about changing careers — not least about the fact that as a Stoy 's partner she could soon be drawing a six figure profit share , compared to the substantially lower salary she would get at C&R . |
| 13 | If you 've got long hair ask your stylist to show you how to put it up . |
| 14 | You 've got long hair too , black hair which you push impatiently away from your face with one hand while gesticulating with the other to make a point as you talk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yeah I do do you know I do n't like to see brides with their hair down if you 've got long hair i |
| 17 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 18 | Certain States in fact claim reimbursement of high fees and daily allowances and travel costs of witnesses who have to travel long distances , although these costs should normally be borne by the requested State , unless Article 26 can be invoked . |
| 19 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 20 | It is of course the case that it is the speech of the first set whose language tends to be described in descriptions of the language ( grammars ) , since descriptions are typically written by middle-aged people who have spent long years reading written language . |
| 21 | Some acupuncturists find that they can not treat patients who have had long courses of antibiotic therapy until several months after this treatment has finished . |
| 22 | She 's got long fair hair but she 's got a veil over it . |
| 23 | so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair |
| 24 | You need to think long and hard before agreeing to such ‘ strings ’ . |
| 25 | Police say the two dead men were leading I R A activists ; one has served long jail terms , the other wounded in a earlier shoot out with troops . |
| 26 | ‘ We had to think long and hard about making it so personal to Thomas , ’ says Beverley . |
| 27 | We have worked long hours . |
| 28 | We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall . |
| 29 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 30 | They 've got long beaks like that . |