Example sentences of "he had [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 2 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 3 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 4 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 5 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 6 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 7 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 8 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 9 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 10 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 11 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 12 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 13 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 14 | He had come a long way . |
| 15 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 16 | He had walked a long way that day . |