Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence .
2 ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion .
3 ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time .
4 A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours .
5 I should have tried harder at the long jump at school
6 The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ .
7 If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him .
8 Polar plants appear to have adapted positively to the long days , long nights , low light intensities and other special conditions ( Chapter 2 ) of their environment .
9 This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms .
10 He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun .
11 He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time .
12 Carl had got home after a long day .
13 But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’
14 They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey .
15 This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’
16 The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son .
17 They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer :
18 That would be a mistake : this is one of the most satisfying and interesting CDs I have come across in a long while .
19 I have said enough about the long run already , where there will be no more Reykjavik and no more big glass and not even any more lovers .
20 Many students of engineering and other professional or semi-professional fields were in the past part-time not full-time , and sandwich courses have grown out of a long tradition of first night-school , then day release and then block release — a pattern associated in the post-war period mainly with the non-university sector .
21 Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’
22 Both have gone on for a long time .
23 I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born .
24 The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists .
25 they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over
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