Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I do n't hear those words , ‘ Fight on , boy ; ’ or feel those long arms around me like I dreamed about for years and years . |
| 2 | The results of this pairwise comparative approach confirm our prediction ( Table 1a ) : across nine species pairs , forked tails do indeed show less sexual dimorphism in length than do other long tails ( Wilcoxon signed ranks test : z corr =2.10 , 1-tailed P=0.017 ) . |
| 3 | I hid Buff 's laser gun and used some long plants to tie him up . |
| 4 | Slowly I got up and drew some long breaths . |
| 5 | From the United States of America , however , comes a genus which will survive all but the coldest of winters and provide that long season of colour which makes the half hardy perennials such a popular group of garden plants . |
| 6 | He created havoc and caused many long faces amongst the island 's hierarchy by taking six for 16 in 6 overs . |
| 7 | In order to increase it 's market share and to build exciting long term business prospects it was quickly realised that Noble Metals would have to provide more value to it 's customers that their competitors . |
| 8 | I picked up the bottle beside me and took another long swig . |
| 9 | He raised a mocking dark brow as he sat back in his seat and crossed one long leg over the other , and Fran bit back a sudden urge to snap an answer at him . |
| 10 | You telephoned me at the hotel and had that long conversation with me . ’ |
| 11 | But since we last met I 've visited both the States and Brazil , and had several long days of hard talking . ’ |
| 12 | The analysis of the English vowel system presented in Chapters 2 and 3 contains a large number of phonemes , and it is not surprising that some phonologists ( who believed in the importance of keeping the total number of phonemes small ) proposed different analyses which contain less than ten vowel phonemes and treat all long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two phonemes each . |
| 13 | We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off |
| 14 | is par-boiled to remove the surface starch that causes the problems when cooking other long grain rices . |
| 15 | When staying one Long Vacation at a friend 's place , ‘ at Hom Lacey in Herefordshire ’ , he happened to leave his watch on the window-sill of his chamber . |
| 16 | The sprinkler system , suitably adapted to and designed for each individual risk , is capable of precise application in anticipation of flame travel as well as having satisfactory long term knock-out effects on residual fuel . |