Example sentences of "[vb pp] his long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers . |
| 2 | Has he still got his long hair ? |
| 3 | It was a moonlight night and from 11pm Ted was waiting for the platelayers ' arrival as their company would liven his long shift . |
| 4 | He had worked as a farmer and it was feared his long term exposure to pesticides may have led to his ill health . |
| 5 | Mr La Malfa 's resignation was the biggest surprise of all , given his long crusade for moral reform . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men . |
| 8 | If only Corbett had kept his long nose out of this God-forsaken business ! |
| 9 | 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 . |