Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] very long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way .
2 ‘ He does n't usually throw tantrums , ’ Ashley said ruefully , as Vitor came round from the boot , ‘ but he has had a very long day . ’
3 This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations .
4 ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another .
5 The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy .
6 It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere .
7 Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments .
8 You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time .
9 By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire .
10 What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it .
11 You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league !
12 It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent .
13 And in the morning she would have to have a very long talk with Feargal 's mother .
14 Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift .
15 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
16 She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent .
17 But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping
18 So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go .
19 They had gone a very long way into the tunnel .
20 So they 've kept a very long time .
21 He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories .
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