Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 32 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 33 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 34 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 35 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 36 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 37 | This is one of the best new recordings of Honegger 's music to have appeared for a long time . |
| 38 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 39 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 40 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 41 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 42 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 43 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 44 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 45 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 46 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 48 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 49 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 50 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 51 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 52 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
| 53 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 54 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 55 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 56 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 57 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 58 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 59 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 60 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |