Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 6 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |