Example sentences of "[pron] had have a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way .
2 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 ) .
3 He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy .
4 He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well .
5 Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign .
6 He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it .
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