Example sentences of "have long [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has long arms and I think he 'll use them to hold me off and make it a long bout . |
| 2 | This seven-headed , four-legged monster also has long tails or rays attached to its back ( fig. 14.28 ) . |
| 3 | I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back , only at the fringe ! |
| 4 | We used to have long discussions and arguments about everything from radio-controlled models to religion , and from parapsychology to physics . |
| 5 | The first probably had long snouts and are thought to have been the ancestors of the lemurs , now only found in Madagascar , and of the lorises that today live in the forests of the Far East . |
| 6 | They had long hair and said they knew Jack Kerouac . |
| 7 | I had a friend who had long hair and she , she let it grow right the way through . |
| 8 | Michael had long eyelashes and freckles that went down inside the neck of his uniform . |
| 9 | She had long legs and a mane of blonde hair ; as she laboured at her typewriter on classified memoranda she drew into North 's office a little stream of besotted admirers , and she was to be spotted after the scandal broke driving round Washington in her red sports car ( FAWN 1 ) , blowing smoke out of the windows . |
| 10 | It was a faint constellation lying between Leo and Gemini , and a twelfth of the world 's population born under its sign had long pincers and never let go . |
| 11 | They slept on piles of old sacks in the disused pigsty , had long beards and staffs , and went barefoot . |
| 12 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 13 | Many fast animals have long shanks or calves , compared with thighs , like gazelles and horses . |
| 14 | Most of the time I work behind a desk and have to wear smart clothes and have long nails and a nice hair-do . |
| 15 | Choreographers , like dancers , have long memories and what a student experiences in a class-room can trigger off an idea much later . |
| 16 | Cats have long memories and if they have suffered pain at male hands they may hate all males for months afterwards , sometimes literally for years . |
| 17 | Orbit publishes Alan Dean Foster 's Son of Spellsinger ( £4.99 ) , and although the previous book in this series came out some time ago fans have long memories and this will sell well . |
| 18 | I want to look like a racehorse and have long hair and Jim , that 's what I want . |
| 19 | They have long hair and long nails and , not unnaturally , a white pallor , and very little to eat . |
| 20 | The American Quarter horses used in this type of riding have long tails and manes . |