Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [vb pp] [art] 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 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 5 | In her agitation she had taken the longer route on to the Quay de Cologny . |
| 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 . |