Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] long [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 2 | It was an old house in its own tidy grounds , all parquet and notice boards , three floors of quiet cells inhabited by ungainly girls who wore long skirts and tucked their legs under them when they sat on floor cushions drinking coffee . |
| 3 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 4 | I had a friend who had long hair and she , she let it grow right the way through . |
| 5 | Nicholas Roe concluded our conversation rather surprisingly by saying : ‘ Billingsgate is a really tough environment , you work long hours and grow old quickly . |
| 6 | ‘ We use long exposures and high temperatures to create print reticulation . ’ |
| 7 | We work long hours and |
| 8 | All large , cheerful girls in their late teens , to my great relief they wore long skirts and mats around their waists , tied as tradition dictates with a braided kiekei band . |
| 9 | They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac . |
| 10 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 11 | They have long hair and long nails and , not unnaturally , a white pallor , and very little to eat . |
| 12 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 13 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 14 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 15 | He took long strides and he walked fast but he walked easily too and without great exertion . |
| 16 | He wore long underwear and elastic suspenders held his socks . |
| 17 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |