Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | We bring the Guinness Spot to a close with a local musician who has had a long and distinguished career in the country and blues divisions of rock . |
| 2 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | He appears to be trying to escape a pursuer who has seized the long hair at the back of his head . |
| 5 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 6 | Thus Galadriel says of her life , ‘ Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat ’ . |
| 7 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |