Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails .
2 And then it 's like as though they 've had them long windows , you know ?
3 Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space .
4 No Mandy 's got her long sleeve thing on who 's that ?
5 He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers .
6 Has he still got his long hair ?
7 I could clearly hear the roar of engines above me , and distinctly heard one long burst of cannon fire .
8 She had pinned her long hair up in an elegant knot on top of her head , and was wearing a chic little number which Alexandra recognized immediately as a Thierry Mugler .
9 It was a moonlight night and from 11pm Ted was waiting for the platelayers ' arrival as their company would liven his long shift .
10 He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health .
11 Mr La Malfa 's resignation was the biggest surprise of all , given his long crusade for moral reform .
12 That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends .
13 However , both will have started their long journey up the learning curve .
14 By the time Mains and company had twirled their long knives , the only long-service survivors were Terry Wright , John Kirwan and Grant Fox in the backs , and Michael Jones , Mike Brewer , Zinzan Brooke , Ian Jones , Steve McDowell , Loe and Fitzpatrick in the forwards .
15 The driver had found them a parking slot some forty yards distant , and there the four man back-up team had begun their long vigil .
16 She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck .
17 The play takes place in the Sussex home of Mrs St Maugham , an encrusted relic of Edwardian values who has lived her long life ‘ without affection ’ .
18 She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men .
19 If only Corbett had kept his long nose out of this God-forsaken business !
20 I have already described the Croydon Corporation case , which was the result of an epidemic of typhoid , and I have mentioned my long association with the Royal College of Psychiatrists , and the fact that my only medical qualification is as an honorary fellow of that college .
21 He had known the writer Hope Mirrlees for some years , at first through her friendship with the Woolfs ( the Hogarth Press had published her long poem , Paris , three years before The Waste Land ) , and she was now living with her mother and spinster aunt .
22 Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life .
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