Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , as they had chatted , the model had been continually fussing with her mane of black curls , or admiring her long finger nails , or smoothing down the skirt of her grey suede suit . |
| 2 | While eating we watched a variety of cheeky small birds darting through the restaurant , picking up tasty crumbs of freshly baked bread and croissants or dipping their long narrow beaks around the lid of the sugar bowl when the waiters were n't looking . |
| 3 | I do n't want to know , I wo n't know said Sally as she put her hands put out her hands as if she was fending Daryl off , I hate you Daryl Rivers , you with , you with your mother who comes to see you often , sends you things and writes you long letters and comes to see you . |
| 4 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 5 | Andrew set his cup down and unravelled his long legs . |
| 6 | As they crossed the bridge and began their long ride home , Jonadab heaved a heavy sigh . |
| 7 | Marje returned to the Daily Mirror in 1954 and began her long affair with Mirror lawyer Phillip Levy in the early 1960s . |
| 8 | Here he worked on the home ground of his old master , Adam Sedgwick , and began his long continued interest in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy . |
| 9 | She hitched the full skirt of her Summer dress up above her knees , and swung her long legs for him to see . |
| 10 | Muttering under her breath , she flung back the covers and swung her long legs out of bed , the flimsy material of her nightdress caressing her thighs as she padded barefoot to the kitchen to fetch a couple of aspirin . |
| 11 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 12 | Daalny was shaking out and combing her long black hair in the women 's rooms , and listening to the chatter of a merchant 's widow from Wem , who had availed herself of a night 's lodging here on her way to Wenlock for her daughter 's lying-in . |
| 13 | Then she carefully made up her face and brushed her long auburn hair , the solemn wide-eyed child watching her every movement . |
| 14 | He rearranged a couple of silver paperweights and brushed his long white hair with his hand . |
| 15 | He pressed his mouth down on hers and kissed her long and hard and without any kind of finesse until Robyn felt she 'd throw up if she had to endure the taste of him any longer . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's what I 'm saying , ’ she told him chokily , and felt more treachery from her body as he placed his warm mouth over hers and kissed her long and lingeringly . |
| 17 | It was meant to be swift and brief , but the moment she touched him Miguel took control , and kissed her long and hard , so that she found herself breathing deeply , gasping for air . |
| 18 | Canon Devlin intoned the burial service in a creaky Latin and pulled his long cloak tighter around him against the wind that sifted through the cemetery on the outskirts of Milltown . |
| 19 | But by the end of the Sixties , Lagerfeld was back , having freelanced for various companies in Italy , and started his long association with the Fendis doing , as he puts it , ‘ funny things ’ for them . |
| 20 | He wore a short , close-trimmed beard that scarcely veiled the shape of a wide , mobile , quirky mouth like a jester 's ; and though his thick crop of short , curling hair was black , there were twin streaks of mingled rust-red in the beard 's blackness , sharpening and tapering his long chin to a fiery point . |
| 21 | She manoeuvred herself so she was crouched between him and the rocks , and taking his long hard knob by the root she began waving it under her nose like a conductor 's baton . |
| 22 | Indeed , he kept them closed as he opened the Gospels , and planted his long index finger blindly upon the page . |
| 23 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 24 | They need the wide open expanses of a high wall , fence , side of a house , or even trees , where they can fling out and stretch their long stems — 30ft ( 9m ) high is by no means unusual . |
| 25 | Pulling on a sweater and wrapping my long kilt around me , I made my way towards Sheikha Grandmother 's house . |
| 26 | Then my Cid alighted when he had said this , and the ladies knelt down before him , and kissed his hand , and wished him long life . |
| 27 | Instinctively drawing in his limbs and curling his long back , the Perk sailed out of her grasp and over the edge of the steps like a furry stone in a leather jerkin . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I expect I 'll volunteer for one of the leads , ’ he said , leaning back and crossing his long brown legs nonchalantly . |
| 30 | Almost immediately she pulled herself together and swept her long hair from her face with both hands . |