Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Kendall said last night : ‘ I have had long talks with Peter and I am optimistic that I can get him to come to City . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We have worked long hours . |
| 11 | We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall . |
| 12 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 13 | Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo . |
| 14 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |