Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 2 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 3 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 4 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 5 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 6 | The men were volunteers who had undergone a long and thorough training , and most had also had battle experience in South Africa , India and Egypt . |
| 7 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |