Example sentences of "long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember how the knocker-up went around the streets banging at bedroom windows with a long stick to wake the occupants in time to get to work . |
| 2 | He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach . |
| 3 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 4 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 5 | Miss Jarman asked , taking up an ivory hand on a long stick and scratching under her wig , starting a snowstorm of powder . |
| 6 | After studying the situation for a few minutes the first macaque ran off and got a long stick . |
| 7 | They 're , they 're like a long stick with a handle on them are n't they ? |
| 8 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 9 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 10 | The wool was wound on a long stick called a distaff . |
| 11 | . These are er long stick leaves . |
| 12 | Tended by a woman with a long stick . |
| 13 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 14 | Forgive my curiosity to see her : I prodded the ball of workers with a long stick , in a vain attempt to flush out the queen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the event , he had become a Newfoundlander ; but in any case the Yeomanry 's long sojourn in Tunisia would not have satisfied him . |
| 17 | Was it just electrical power — hence the staggering sight of all the massed Glories — or was it more to do with some human power the Worm had absorbed in its long sojourn under Monument Hill ? |
| 18 | But there is no sign that Hugh had any influence on his thought before his long sojourn in Lyons from May 1099 to August 1100 . |
| 19 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 20 | There is a roughly similar development in 2010 , so the pattern may derive in part from Clarke , who has presumably imbibed some elements of oriental mysticism from his long sojourn in Ceylon . |
| 21 | ‘ It 'll save you the trouble of telling lies , and blackening your soul , and paving the way for your long sojourn in hell . ’ |
| 22 | It sounded like a sliver of a scream , caught in one long instant of time . |
| 23 | The Kurd made a long noise in his throat which she presumed to indicate disappointment . |
| 24 | But a long shirt tail flopped down around his thighs . |
| 25 | The journos were all on their best behaviour , the American woman in stockings and a long dress , the men in long shirt sleeves . |
| 26 | The gold of summer faded off Gabriel 's skin , grew down to the tips of his hair , and on days when the wind blew , he shivered at the top of his ladder like a flag at a mast-head , his long shirt billowing full of cold air . |
| 27 | NHS At the Conservative Party Conference in 1986 , Norman Fowler , then Secretary of State for Health , was loudly cheered on producing a long computer printout of 380 new ‘ large hospital schemes ’ costing £3bn , which he unrolled over the rostrum for the benefit of photographers from newspapers which had criticised the Tories ' record on the NHS . |
| 28 | ‘ This was her school project , ’ he explains , picking up a long computer print-out . |
| 29 | More lists , long computer analyses of each individual — background , ethnic origins , age , record , previous political activities . |
| 30 | The DNA is arranged along stringy chromosomes , like long computer tapes . |