Example sentences of "he [verb] long [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL Heseltine was rewarded yesterday for four weeks of dynamic and effective campaigning by being appointed Trade and Industry Secretary , the Cabinet job he has long coveted . |
| 2 | Mr Heseltine , whose challenge to Mrs Thatcher put Mr Major into Downing Street , has got the job he has long desired . |
| 3 | He has long criticised the bank 's practices , dubbing it ‘ Crazy Lyonnais ’ for rash lending . |
| 4 | Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted . |
| 5 | Providing a refreshing exception to the plethora of Goochies and Emberses , he has long revelled in the nickname of ‘ Map ’ , one reflecting an uncommon knowledge of the circuit 's quickest routes and choicest hotels . |
| 6 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 7 | What did Billy Corkin do that Will Carling could never do , he asks long lost friends . |
| 8 | The fact that Hitler was out of Germany , at the Führer Headquarters in the east , and engaged in the conduct of the war against the Bolshevik arch-enemy — a war which he had long prophesied as inevitable in order to defend Christian Europe — evidently made it unthinkable for many that he could have anything to do with the ‘ godless Bolshevism ’ of the brownshirts at home . |
| 9 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 10 | He pleaded for mufakat , an Islamic term for the gotong-royong he had long advocated : consensus , harmony , unity . |
| 11 | To Daniel it was a battle worth fighting , an opportunity to be of service which he had long desired . |
| 12 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 13 | To keep the GPRA at the table , de Gaulle was forced to agree to a series of major concessions on points that he had long proclaimed non- negotiable : to negotiate solely with the FLN ; to drop the demand for a cease-fire before negotiations could get under way ; and to give up the Sahara to the embryonic Algerian republic . |
| 14 | Patrick stripped off and changed quickly , trying to ignore Joseph Hyde 's too intense stare ; he had long suspected his friend 's preferences for young men — although to be perfectly fair , he had never seen him in any company other than those who supported the Irish movement . |
| 15 | It said there what he had long believed , that one had a duty to be brave , a duty to one 's soul . |
| 16 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 17 | He had long believed that France 's duty was to do everything possible to favour this evolution . |
| 18 | For Oldfield , exacting a satisfactory arrangement with Virgin had become a point of principle , inextricably entwined with his feelings for the man whom he had long regarded as friend and protector , and his need to prove something to himself : ‘ It had got to a point where I said I ca n't respect myself unless I 'm prepared to stand up and fight Richard . |
| 19 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 20 | He had long intended , and prepared the ground for , some landed provision for Charles . |
| 21 | ‘ Muni was and is sociologically-minded , ’ said the press-book , and ‘ he had long wished to bring to the American people the picture of these primitive people who worked hard and who died that the wheels of industry might not be stilled ’ . |
| 22 | He had had his rest , his metabolism responded well to an occasional crisis , he had long known there was one looming here , and he may have sensed that there were advantages , both public and private , in bringing it to a head before the end of his premiership . |
| 23 | In another area , he had long cherished a dream to provide some sort of community service for young people in this country . |
| 24 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 25 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 26 | He was not quite sixteen but he had long acted like a boy impatient of childhood . |
| 27 | A note in his voice that he had long cultivated indicated that the discussion was at an end . |
| 28 | The General knew he would probably die , for infantry took pleasure in killing cavalry and he would be the leading horseman in the attack on the bridge , but the General was a soldier and he had long learned that a soldier 's real enemy is the fear of death . |
| 29 | Knowing both men as well as I did , I was one of the few who did not think there would be any major friction between them — both men were far too smart for that-but I did think Niki would find himself struggling for a primacy which he had long taken for granted . |
| 30 | He had long deplored the grand opera house tradition of stars turning up to slot into ready-rehearsed productions , and recalled the awful theatre tale of a famous Lear/Hamlet/Othello turning up to greet a cast of strangers , saying ‘ Whatever you do , do n't get in my way … ‘ |