Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Why I wanted it and how that ties in with who I can love , get it together with , I mean long term . ’
2	I dialled long distance , and within five minutes of my original call to the Navy Department , heard a voice in Kearney saying , ‘ Smith speaking . ’
3	These are ones I bought long time ago .
4	Claire said , ‘ I wish I had long hair .
5	I had long hair , then my mum cut it off and it was really short , so I think everyone thought I was a boy anyway .
6	I have long dream 'd of such a kind of man ,
7	I think the reason I wanted long hair was because all my dolls were Sindys and Pippas , and they all had long blonde hair , so that was what I wanted .
8	Has n't she got long hair now though ?
9	Erm , we rent land from the Duchy of Cornwall , perhaps , er well you know long leasehold , we bought it this way , and we pay low rent .
10	So you get long beep , short beep , long beep , short beep , that 's the successful switching tone , you 'll know it 's worked , and you go trotting back to your office , you get 75 seconds again , it 's like the hold , before it starts to ring , or you can access it by keying in what ?
11	As it was after six o'clock , and , according to her much thumbed book of etiquette , a lady might glitter after that hour , she wore long diamanté earrings .
12	We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings .
13	She had long hair , and a short-skirt , but she did n't fit in , she was a mum .
14	It is all so silly , and I would n't take him so seriously if it was n't for the fact that five years ago he had an affair and , yes , she had long hair .
15	Not only can this play hell with the smooth operation of a network , it can be a nightmare to troubleshoot , especially where you have long cable runs between machines .
16	The kindest way is to let it dry naturally , but if you have long hair , this is n't particularly practical in winter , so if you do use a dryer regularly , use a diffuser for a more gentle drying action .
17	As a bank , we have long experience of businesses and their needs , which is essential when it comes to providing pensions for directors and people who are self-employed and insurance cover .
18	We talk to hoteliers and developers on a day to day basis , we work with them as they make long term plans .
19	in bad weather we used to go into what was it they called Long Hope or something and anchor there .
20	They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac .
21	They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening .
22	In the population census for 1991 nearly one in seven of Bassetlaw 's residents said that they had long term illnesses , health problems , or handicaps that limited their daily activities or work .
23	Often , they require long term treatment simply to relearn the basics of life , like walking and talking .
24	They have long incubation periods , often measured in years , but once manifested the disease usually progresses swiftly , without remission and uninfluenced by treatment , to death within a few months .
25	They have long hair and long nails and , not unnaturally , a white pallor , and very little to eat .
26	In practice , however , heat pumps are expensive to install , they have long payback periods at current fuel prices , and there are doubts about their reliability and performance .
27	It demands long leg bones , powerful muscles , capacious lungs .
28	He wore long underwear and elastic suspenders held his socks .
29	It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping .
30	Whichever method was used it meant long traffic holdups as the creatures went through the streets , their already frightened state heightened by a deal of cruelty on the part of many of the drovers .

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