Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] the long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 2 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 3 | The Communist Party was able to maintain its progress throughout 1939 , having passed through the longest period of continuous growth in its history . |
| 4 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 5 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 6 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 7 | Earlier that day , when school had ended at a quarter to four , Hilary Frome had walked down the long road towards Cullbridge with Willis and Quigly . |
| 8 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 9 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 10 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |
| 11 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
| 12 | Patients who 've complained about the long wait have been sent letters of apology . |
| 13 | By then we should have completed any changes to the constitution and bye-laws , have decided on the long term future of our examination system and have strengthened our financial position so that we can meet the costs involved . |
| 14 | Although it is difficult to reach firm conclusions from the small number of patients who underwent balloon counterpulsation , those few who have survived in the long term underwent such a procedure while their renal function was still normal or nearly normal and their renal state remained stable until transplantation . |