Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had really long hair once , it was way past my bum and when I got my first record deal they wanted me to have it all cut off — it was a total disaster . |
| 2 | ‘ I had very long hair when Verity and the others first saw me , down below my shoulders , very thick and very curly . |
| 3 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 4 | I thought Windows would allow printing to be carried out as a full background job , but I experience quite long delays while Word and Excel send their output to the Print Manager . |
| 5 | We have however created this sub-heading for those techniques which offer more long term distraction than those mentioned previously . |
| 6 | Most Escherichia coli promoters studied so far form stable open complexes with σ 70 -RNA polymerase which have relatively long half-lives and , therefore , are resistant to a competitor challenge . |
| 7 | As someone who worked in the BMC when it was at its height , and who has very long acquaintance with both protagonists , I can vouch for the veracity of Dennis 's story as told here , and can only lament the nit-picking which has continued even after its publication in this book . |
| 8 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |
| 9 | Do you remember that long letter you wrote at Christmas ? |
| 10 | If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress . |
| 11 | We appreciated that long months of solitary on top of the awful treatment he 'd received before must have put incredible strains on him . |
| 12 | Our resorts are off the beaten track ; to reach them we fly to offbeat airfields with skimpy facilities , or we take unfashionably long bus drives from better known airports . |
| 13 | Since his debut in 1984 , he has largely been cast in the role of workhorse for West Indies , his seemingly effortless , languid approach to the wicket enabling him to bowl fairly long spells , even in hot and humid conditions . |
| 14 | They used to go off painting together at week-ends , often in Burger 's boat , and they spent quite long holidays abroad . |
| 15 | It was pretty good for him to be noticed by me as I was far more impressed with WBA than Wolves — no wonder they signed Geoff Thomas , they play more long balls than C Palace ! |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously they have very long memories but I am not going to get involved in any more comments , ’ added the former Gloucester , Worcester and England batsman and BBC commentator . |
| 17 | Most promoters analyzed in detail , which correspond to Escherichia coli , form open complexes with RNA polymerase that are essentially irreversible in vitro , in the sense that they have relatively long half-lives ( in the range of several minutes to hours , refs. 3 , 4 , 6 , 7 ) , and are therefore resistant to the challenge of competitors such as heparin or heterologous DNA . |
| 18 | You can imagine this has meant him working very long hours , one of the other problems he has is he suffers from diabetes . |
| 19 | The private sector can not invest in the circumstances set out in the bill , because they need very long franchises with control of all the means of production , the track , the trains , the stations , the total business . |
| 20 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 21 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself in extreme cases the fish has been known to leap from the tank . |
| 22 | It has exceptionally long barbels and , when kept in confined spaces where it can not move these appendages freely , it will often take fright and dash around the aquarium , causing considerable damage not only to the tank decor , but to itself . |
| 23 | As compensation for not being able to grow hair on his head , he achieved monstrously long sideboards . |
| 24 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 25 | He had very long hair at the time and a beard , Lewis remembered , and looked as they all did like some kind of weird prophet . |
| 26 | He had very long hands , which were also covered in freckles and sported three gold rings . |