Example sentences of "[vb past] had [art] long " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 2 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 3 | Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last . |
| 4 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 5 | They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over . |
| 6 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 7 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 8 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 9 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 10 | Ballylumford had had a long , bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed . |
| 11 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 12 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 13 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 14 | Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen . |
| 15 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 16 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 17 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 18 | And it was apparently during that hospital visit that Ross and his brother had had a long serious talk about what would be best for the children . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |