Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 8 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 9 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 10 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 11 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 12 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 13 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 14 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 15 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 16 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 17 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 18 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 19 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 20 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 21 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 22 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 23 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 26 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 27 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 28 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 29 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 30 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |