Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 2 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 3 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 4 | This race came only two months after he had run well for a long way when leading the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury and Gaselee told me , ‘ He appeared to love the Newbury race and we were delighted with his performance at that time . ’ |
| 5 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 6 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |