Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [pos pn] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only Corbett had kept his long nose out of this God-forsaken business ! |
| 2 | The driver had found them a parking slot some forty yards distant , and there the four man back-up team had begun their long vigil . |
| 3 | No Mandy 's got her long sleeve thing on who 's that ? |
| 4 | Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life . |
| 5 | By the time Mains and company had twirled their long knives , the only long-service survivors were Terry Wright , John Kirwan and Grant Fox in the backs , and Michael Jones , Mike Brewer , Zinzan Brooke , Ian Jones , Steve McDowell , Loe and Fitzpatrick in the forwards . |
| 6 | He had known the writer Hope Mirrlees for some years , at first through her friendship with the Woolfs ( the Hogarth Press had published her long poem , Paris , three years before The Waste Land ) , and she was now living with her mother and spinster aunt . |