Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |
| 2 | Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development . |
| 3 | Mr. Lowe ( Public Assistance Officer ) has had long talks with him and is convinced that the man is not normal ; he continually contradicts himself and his great joy is getting publicity . |
| 4 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 5 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 6 | His old man is , has got long blond hair but he 's bald on top |
| 7 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 8 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 9 | Development of an All Wales Strategy has involved long discussions at county level between social services department personnel , representatives from voluntary organisations , parents and sometimes consumers . |
| 10 | Police say the two dead men were leading I R A activists ; one has served long jail terms , the other wounded in a earlier shoot out with troops . |
| 11 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 12 | But as important as our joint interests are our shared values and I think a very good example of this is our common approach , er er , to the question of the Social Chapter for which the Labour opposition led , I may say , by two leading G M B spokesmen Jack and George the Labour opposition has fought long and hard for this in parliament , indeed , we have secured a vote on the question er , after the Queen 's ascent , and last month , I myself , as a guest of the Danish social democrats , took the argument to the continent in the Danish referendum , in the second Danish ref referendum , which I 'm very glad to say was won ! |
| 13 | today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lots of the slicker , more citified proles ' sons had this extremely short hair by '68 after having had long hair . |
| 16 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 17 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 18 | He will have spent long years mastering this art . |
| 19 | Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober . |
| 20 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 21 | Similarly , other Rowdies who have been shown to have given long service through organizing or chant leading might also have a chance of making the grade . |
| 22 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 23 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If you 've got long hair ask your stylist to show you how to put it up . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | H A I R and that is the hair that 's on your head , I 've got long hair , dark hair . |
| 29 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 30 | 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 . |