Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [vb pp] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
5 Miss Lodsworth had had a long day .
6 It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all .
7 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
8 Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen .
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