Example sentences of "have [verb] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dan Jones ( 64 ) has no formal qualifications but has had long experience in the distribution and sale of beers , wines and spirits as Marketing Manager for Palatine . |
| 2 | Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development . |
| 3 | Mr. Lowe ( Public Assistance Officer ) has had long talks with him and is convinced that the man is not normal ; he continually contradicts himself and his great joy is getting publicity . |
| 4 | My mother has had longer to practise being a mother and I think she has perfected the art . |
| 5 | ‘ One of my clients has got long hair and there 's no way I 'd let anybody cut it . |
| 6 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 7 | His old man is , has got long blond hair but he 's bald on top |
| 8 | Because the distance across the diameter has got longer — according to you . |
| 9 | This is why Kenneth Baker has promised longer franchises for operators prepared to install systems that rely on switched-star technology . |
| 10 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 11 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 12 | This wig , with a short exterior shape , has texturised longer layers . |
| 13 | Development of an All Wales Strategy has involved long discussions at county level between social services department personnel , representatives from voluntary organisations , parents and sometimes consumers . |
| 14 | Police say the two dead men were leading I R A activists ; one has served long jail terms , the other wounded in a earlier shoot out with troops . |
| 15 | The Cabinet were much less happy about this , as were Mountbatten 's own staff : however , General Slim , in command of 14th Army , showed more understanding , declaring ( 19 April ) : ‘ Help already given by BNA has gone long way towards expiation of political crimes . ’ |
| 16 | But as important as our joint interests are our shared values and I think a very good example of this is our common approach , er er , to the question of the Social Chapter for which the Labour opposition led , I may say , by two leading G M B spokesmen Jack and George the Labour opposition has fought long and hard for this in parliament , indeed , we have secured a vote on the question er , after the Queen 's ascent , and last month , I myself , as a guest of the Danish social democrats , took the argument to the continent in the Danish referendum , in the second Danish ref referendum , which I 'm very glad to say was won ! |
| 17 | today and he 'd got a cap on and he 'd got long blond hair had n't he ? |
| 18 | I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview — I only wish we 'd had longer . |
| 19 | The lucky ones had bikes but most had to walk long distances to meet up with their friends . |
| 20 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |
| 21 | They did n't have to wait long to find out where she was . |
| 22 | But the UK may have to wait longer for any improvement . |
| 23 | The stoppage means some students will have to wait longer to learn whether they 've secured a college place . |
| 24 | You 'll have to wear long tops . |
| 25 | Luckily , they did n't have to search long or far . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't have to search long and hard to achieve this wonderment with America , that 's all I know , ’ says Greg defiantly . |
| 27 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 28 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 29 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
| 30 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |