Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 2 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 3 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 5 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |