Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 2 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 3 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 4 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 5 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 6 | Most clubs , you have to go through a long rigmarole of being proposed and seconded and vouched for by other members and having your background scrutinised , and weeks and months go by before you 're elected . |
| 7 | People arriving in this country for such a purpose have to go through a long interview procedure to process their claims . |
| 8 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |