Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once collected and properly packaged , these precious cargoes had to survive long voyages , often in the intimate care of the ship 's captain . |
| 2 | Mr Thompson said butchers would be unhappy if their meat had to travel long distances . |
| 3 | Her father had worked long hours for the convent in his time , he had paid many times over in advance for his child to be housed and educated , had he but known it . |
| 4 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 5 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 6 | And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming . |