Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 2 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 3 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 4 | There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle , and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy . |
| 5 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 6 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 7 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 8 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 9 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 10 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 11 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 12 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 13 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 14 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 15 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 16 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 17 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 18 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 19 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 20 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 21 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 22 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 23 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 24 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 25 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 26 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 27 | And I think Claire 's had a long day . |
| 28 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 29 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |
| 30 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |