Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [pron] long " in BNC.

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1 She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck .
2 She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf .
3 She had pinned her long hair up in an elegant knot on top of her head , and was wearing a chic little number which Alexandra recognized immediately as a Thierry Mugler .
4 Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space .
5 She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men .
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