Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] long " in BNC.

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1 I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it .
2 Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes .
3 H A I R and that is the hair that 's on your head , I 've got long hair , dark hair .
4 to do with the what the well we 've got instead of all these individual prints I 've got I 've got long ones cos if the
5 Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree .
6 Kendall said last night : ‘ I have had long talks with Peter and I am optimistic that I can get him to come to City .
7 erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions .
8 Sometimes I have spent longer periods overseas , and I would like to mention those in particular : in 1972 , I spent 6 months as a visiting professor at Brown University , Providence , R.I. , U.S.A. ; in 1977 , I spent 3 months teaching in various centres in China ; in 1984 , I spent 3 months as a visiting professor at Kobe University , Japan ; and in 1987 , I spent 3 months as a visiting professor at the University of Paris IV ( the Sorbonne ) .
9 Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development .
10 THE current issue of 90 Minutes magazine carries a Top Ten of League clubs who 've gone longest without being relegated .
11 If you 've got long hair ask your stylist to show you how to put it up .
12 You 've got long hair too , black hair which you push impatiently away from your face with one hand while gesticulating with the other to make a point as you talk .
13 If you 've got long hair and the bald patch is n't too noticeable , then perhaps you can wait for it to re-grow .
14 Yeah I do do you know I do n't like to see brides with their hair down if you 've got long hair i
15 At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period .
16 Certain States in fact claim reimbursement of high fees and daily allowances and travel costs of witnesses who have to travel long distances , although these costs should normally be borne by the requested State , unless Article 26 can be invoked .
17 Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies .
18 It is of course the case that it is the speech of the first set whose language tends to be described in descriptions of the language ( grammars ) , since descriptions are typically written by middle-aged people who have spent long years reading written language .
19 Some acupuncturists find that they can not treat patients who have had long courses of antibiotic therapy until several months after this treatment has finished .
20 She 's got long fair hair but she 's got a veil over it .
21 so I said , she 's the same age as me , she said god , she looked much older than you I said yeah I know , I says it cheers you up doing surgery do n't it seeing all these people that look terrible for their age , so she says well I though she looked older than me , I says yes she does look older , I do n't have , I do n't know how old Sue is , I think she 's forty , I think she 's forty , but this woman she 's got long hair
22 Police say the two dead men were leading I R A activists ; one has served long jail terms , the other wounded in a earlier shoot out with troops .
23 I enjoyed the whole of the Chuck Berry interview — I only wish we 'd had longer .
24 In fact today , this afternoon we 're launching a whole new area at Alton Towers which is additional to anything before erm , Frank referred to it briefly , there 's a Runaway , so called Runaway Train ride , there 's a Ghost House and that 's all part of a new complex , which we 've got longer term plans to expand further .
25 We 've reintroduced longer shorts , laced necklines and embroidered badges , ’ says Tim Gardiner , while over at Adidas they are exploring their own heritage as much as that of the clubs they dress , focusing on variations of their trademark triple stripe ‘ in more interesting colourways ’ .
26 We had to think long and hard about making it so personal to Thomas , ’ says Beverley .
27 We have worked long hours .
28 We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall .
29 Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences .
30 They 've got long beaks like that .
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