Example sentences of "man [prep] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1453 the French returned in force and at Castillon , on 17 July , they defeated the English whose commander , John Talbot , earl of Shrewsbury , a man of long experience , was killed by the murderous fire of French cannon . |
2 | Jane was in a junk food café trying to eat chips off a floppy paper plate and drink red wine three-quarters full of ice , when a young man with long hair entered carrying a guitar , ‘ Ugh — do n't like him , ’ said her host 's son , aged sixteen . |
3 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
4 | One human was a man with long hair . |
5 | He was talking to a small wizened man with long hair and a curved bone through his cheeks which made him appear tusked . |
6 | Mournful-looking man with long beard . |
7 | The journos were all on their best behaviour , the American woman in stockings and a long dress , the men in long shirt sleeves . |
8 | Shooting at a unit of men at long range with a multiple shot . |