Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These brick buildings are on three storeys , the first two being unexceptional Victorian terraced houses arranged round a courtyard , but the floor above them has the characteristic long windows of textile workshops . |
2 | I 've had a good long life — well , a long life , eh , Father Kenneth ? — and I 'm not right done yet . |
3 | Did n't have a great long list , perhaps only about six or ten major P L C's . |
4 | In there you 'll find a sink on the floor , just large enough to stand in , and you can have a good long soak up to your knees . |
5 | Despite its close proximity , it was discovered that this breed owed its curly coat to a different gene and close inspection revealed that , unlike the Cornish and German breeds , this one did have a few long guard hairs . |
6 | ‘ My word , you are having a nice long holiday ! |
7 | We used to have a good long walk somewhere in the Dales every weekend . |
8 | You had a nice long sleep . |
9 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
10 | Did n't matter , we were glad you had a good long sleep , cos it makes you |
11 | She had a good long night with no disturbance . |
12 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
13 | We had a good long hug . |
14 | Patients with severe oesophagitis ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) and adenocarcinoma patients had a similar long history of smoking both of which were greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) . |
15 | Severe oesophagitis patients had a similar long history of smoking to adenocarcinoma patients ( median 38.5 , range 27–55 years ) ; again much greater than CLO patients ( p<0.003 ) ( Fig 3 ) . |
16 | ‘ He had a great long stride — like he was wearing seven league boots . |
17 | ‘ It just struck me , you and she have the same long eye-lashes , silky long , and so has Michel . |
18 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
19 | They have solved the problem by keeping the body stiff as a poker , but they have a single long fin all the way along the length of the body . |