Example sentences of "[vb pp] long " in BNC.
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1 | She never saw her father again , but after Georg Wilhelm 's death a certain relaxation took place , her mother being permitted long visits to her court at Ahlden . |
2 | The team 's trips are organised long in advance , in minute detail . |
3 | This contrasts with humic acids which are rich in carboxyls and are known to complex radio-nuclides to form colloidal suspensions , which can be moved long distances by groundwater . |
4 | Only coal was moved long distances by canals , railways and roads . |
5 | Bowed long notes make good additions to organ pedal parts or timpani rolls . |
6 | Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree . |
7 | In the past year , 35 sites which were of ecological importance due to their plant and animal populations have suffered long term damage . |
8 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
9 | He always brought two , ancient black leather bags that had seen long service , into which he packed with great method all the gloves , tweezers , thermometers and rulers that long usage had shown him he needed . |
10 | Although this is an increase of £28 million over the figure for the previous year , Lord Hanson commented : ‘ We believe the recession has reached its nadir , but its effects will be felt longer than most anticipated , probably for another 12 months . ’ |
11 | The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains . |
12 | … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence . |
13 | If you 've got long hair ask your stylist to show you how to put it up . |
14 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
15 | You 've got long hair too , black hair which you push impatiently away from your face with one hand while gesticulating with the other to make a point as you talk . |
16 | ‘ Thirty-five , he is , and he 's just been told he 's not got long to live . |
17 | Now all the women have got long skirts and all the blokes have got really sensible haircuts , they all do oil painting and the music they like is shite . |
18 | If you 've got long hair and the bald patch is n't too noticeable , then perhaps you can wait for it to re-grow . |
19 | H A I R and that is the hair that 's on your head , I 've got long hair , dark hair . |
20 | She 's got long fair hair but she 's got a veil over it . |
21 | ‘ Besides , it 's got long sleeves , has n't it ? ’ |
22 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
23 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
24 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
25 | He 's got long hair and all . |
26 | He 's got long hair ! |
27 | Well her daughter 's got long boots on that has n't she ? |
28 | His old man is , has got long blond hair but he 's bald on top |
29 | He 's got long cupboards from the window right up to the ceiling . |
30 | today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ? |