Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 2 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 3 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 4 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 5 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 6 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 8 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 9 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 10 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 11 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 12 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 13 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 14 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 15 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 16 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 19 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 22 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 23 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 24 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 25 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 26 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 27 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
| 30 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |