Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 2 | It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain . |
| 3 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 4 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 5 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 6 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |