Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 32 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 33 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 34 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 35 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 36 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 37 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 38 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 39 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 40 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 41 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 42 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 43 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 44 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 45 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 46 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 47 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 48 | He had come a long way . |
| 49 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 50 | He had walked a long way that day . |