Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I see you 've got the longest trip to the sunniest country . |
| 2 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 3 | She has signed the long lease for the house inland , it will be for both of them , Deo volente , as she would say . |
| 4 | In her agitation she had taken the longer route on to the Quay de Cologny . |
| 5 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 6 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 7 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 8 | Thus Galadriel says of her life , ‘ Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat ’ . |
| 9 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |
| 10 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 13 | Even if he had got the kind of constitution that he wanted , could he have stomached the long period of economic rebuilding — with all its attendant constraints — that lay ahead of France in 1946 ? |
| 14 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 15 | That one 's nice over by there cos it 's got the long hair . |
| 16 | down and worked out how many days he 's had the long wheelbase this week . |