Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pron] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have already described the Croydon Corporation case , which was the result of an epidemic of typhoid , and I have mentioned my long association with the Royal College of Psychiatrists , and the fact that my only medical qualification is as an honorary fellow of that college . |
| 2 | The play takes place in the Sussex home of Mrs St Maugham , an encrusted relic of Edwardian values who has lived her long life ‘ without affection ’ . |
| 3 | She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck . |
| 4 | She had pinned her long hair up in an elegant knot on top of her head , and was wearing a chic little number which Alexandra recognized immediately as a Thierry Mugler . |
| 5 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 6 | And then it 's like as though they 've had them long windows , you know ? |
| 7 | She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men . |