Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 2 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 3 | The other , even more revealing letter , was written early in 1945 , after Walter had spent part of a long leave with Viola and the children ( now alone , with divorce a matter of months away ) in their London flat . |
| 4 | Previously they had to remove embers from the long fire-pit to lay on corrugated metal sheets , then embed the breadpans in the cinders and replace the hot sheets over the hole . |
| 5 | Min Chong had also lived in China for many years and had taken part in the Long March . |
| 6 | He remembered how Bigwig had chased Hawkbit through the long grass , forgetting the quarrel of the previous night in the joy of their arrival . |
| 7 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |