Example sentences of "long neck [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long necks and long legs enable the birds to both keep a wary eye over the landscape and to make a speedy departure should they be threatened . |
| 2 | Expeditions to the bottom of the peat-filled loch in 1976 resulted in many photographs of what appeared to be a herd of giant sea-creatures with paddle-like fins , long necks and calf-like heads . |
| 3 | Limbs were often not properly joined with bodies and the long necks and rigidity of attitudes recall the shapes of the clay idols of the period . |
| 4 | Grey herons contorted to strange shapes as they stretched long necks and peered into the shallows . |
| 5 | Franca looked down at Alison , at the brilliance of her red hair , at her long neck and throat , at her bare brown arms , at her white breasts , visible from above , at the glimpse of her paler thigh , still revealed by the disordered skirt . |
| 6 | The elegant one turned the neatly-coiffed head on her long neck and looked apprehensively around the room , careful to suppress her alarm at the primitive scene into which she had intruded . |
| 7 | Then he cut off its long neck and feet , washed the carcass in the stream and stuffed it into his wallet . |
| 8 | Diplodocus , in fact , reached 28 metres in length and had an extraordinarily long neck and whip-like tail . |
| 9 | This long neck and dignified strut makes the heron 's posture an enduring image . |
| 10 | Her long neck and strong pointed chin were shown to advantage by the gesture . |
| 11 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 12 | From a late Protogeometric grave at Athens comes a stag , body made on the wheel , head with long neck and limbs hand-made and attached , the whole decorated in contemporary vase-painting style . |
| 13 | Sophia , with her long neck and auburn hair , looked like a figure in a minor Pre-Raphaelite painting , her velvet dress a deep peacock blue . |