Example sentences of "[that] he [vb past] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
2 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
3 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
4 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
5 | We hoped that the US medical team whom we supposed would attend him at Wiesbaden , as we 'd heard had happened with other American hostages , would recognize that he needed a long rest . |