Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] his long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was smiling , if that could be called a smile that drew his long mouth out of line , plucking the left corner obliquely upwards . |
| 2 | Andrew set his cup down and unravelled his long legs . |
| 3 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 4 | Canon Devlin intoned the burial service in a creaky Latin and pulled his long cloak tighter around him against the wind that sifted through the cemetery on the outskirts of Milltown . |
| 5 | But by the end of the Sixties , Lagerfeld was back , having freelanced for various companies in Italy , and started his long association with the Fendis doing , as he puts it , ‘ funny things ’ for them . |
| 6 | He wore a short , close-trimmed beard that scarcely veiled the shape of a wide , mobile , quirky mouth like a jester 's ; and though his thick crop of short , curling hair was black , there were twin streaks of mingled rust-red in the beard 's blackness , sharpening and tapering his long chin to a fiery point . |
| 7 | Indeed , he kept them closed as he opened the Gospels , and planted his long index finger blindly upon the page . |
| 8 | Instinctively drawing in his limbs and curling his long back , the Perk sailed out of her grasp and over the edge of the steps like a furry stone in a leather jerkin . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course I do , ’ he replied , relaxing and stretching his long legs out in front of him , so that they were within a hair 's breadth of brushing against hers . |
| 10 | That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends . |