Example sentences of "her long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet is barbecuing pork kebabs , which w ill be as exotic as her long hair swinging blonde white over the glowing charcoal . |
| 2 | Harriet puts her head on Jen 's shoulder , her long straight strange hair fanning across Jen 's breast as if it were her own hair , and her own short , coppery/gingery hair stops standing on end at the ghost in the wood and begins to flow loose . |
| 3 | Yet in The Rake 's Progress de Valois found something new to say about the ladies of the town when she made their leader kick off her shoes , pull up her long yellow skirt and roll down her red stockings before bursting barefooted into a riotous dance on a great salver . |
| 4 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 5 | She reached for his hand , clutched it and dug in her long nails . |
| 6 | This she sipped slowly , very conscious of the picture she made in her cream linen dress , her pale hair slightly but attractively disordered , Roman sandal thongs binding her long legs to the knee . |
| 7 | He eyed her eyelashes suspiciously , her long fingernails . |
| 8 | ‘ You like me , do n't you ? she had asked , her long hair loosened for sleep . |
| 9 | The later years of her long and successful life were troubled , alas , by an excess of curious and unannounced visitors in addition to the genuine and eminent gardeners whom she welcomed . |
| 10 | For all her tempering in the fires of history , she remained an impassioned idealist to the end of her long life , though with enough self-knowledge and self-irony to be able to record what Milena Jesenska said about the difference between them — ‘ What an incurable girl guide you are . |
| 11 | Stopping to buy a paper , he caught sight of Francesca through the window , perched on one of the bar stools , totally unconscious of the table full of men next to her all eyeing her long legs . |
| 12 | These early letters to Helen are now lost and are merely reflected in her long replies from Margate and Rotherfield . |
| 13 | There were memorable pictures : the beautiful Princess with her long train carried by the small page-boys ; the debonair Prince ; the members of royal families from all over Europe ; the world 's leaders and statesmen ; the small but immaculate figure of Nancy Reagan . |
| 14 | She was proud of her long , flexible nose . |
| 15 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 16 | Now she stood up and began to march restlessly round the room , swinging her long gun by its handle . |
| 17 | And Bella sank back on her pillows , exhausted by pain , by her long story and by the growing suspicion , nagging away obsessively in her head , that , once they had her in here , they would see that her condition was worsening and they would never , ever let her go home again . |
| 18 | Elinor was stunning as the Queen of the Nile , her long black hair smoothed out with wet-look gel , a gold and green silk robe and chunky turquoise earrings and bangles from Star of the East down the market ; and how handsome was Nigel in his mini-skirt , feathers and horse brasses . |
| 19 | The film 's unexpected success must have been a relief after her long maternity break , proof that she could come back : there are now talks of buddy pic with Madonna . |
| 20 | With her long cotton dress tucked up for ease of movement , Emily looked neat and easy beside the rangy , untidy figure of the young magician . |
| 21 | She lay across the big bed with her head thrown back so that her long hair fell like a veil of copper across the coverlet . |
| 22 | She twirled and swayed around the room in a slow dance , her skirt billowing and her long hair shining beneath the bright lights . |
| 23 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 24 | Dane curled her long body into the remaining space and lay with her head resting on her front paws , oblivious to the pups ' wails of hunger . |
| 25 | Her long and anxious wait for breakfast had caused her so much stress , that she had developed colic and died . |
| 26 | Alison is eighteen and has , as she puts it in her long letter , ‘ never reached adolescence ’ . |
| 27 | It was a day of sweet triumph for Kylie , her long time friend Jason and Stock , Aitken and Waterman , the musical masterminds behind them . |
| 28 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Edith Cresson was 58 in January ; she is a grandmother but , judging by photographs taken at the outset of her long career , she looks better now than she did then . |