Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 32 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 33 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 34 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . |
| 40 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 41 | 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 ? |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 44 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 45 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 46 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 51 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 52 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 53 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 54 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 55 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 56 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 57 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 58 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 59 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 60 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |