Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] the long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 2 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 6 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |
| 9 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |