Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 3 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 4 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 5 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 6 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 7 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 8 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 9 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 10 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 11 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 12 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 13 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 14 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 15 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 16 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 17 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 18 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 19 | The men were volunteers who had undergone a long and thorough training , and most had also had battle experience in South Africa , India and Egypt . |
| 20 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 21 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 22 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 23 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 24 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 25 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 26 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 27 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 28 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 29 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 30 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |