Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 6 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 7 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 8 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 9 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 10 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 11 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 12 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |