Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 2 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 3 | Well it 's the plaintiff 's saying is you had one and and you handcuffed him , nevertheless , notwithstanding the fact that you had a long barrelled weapon . |
| 4 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 5 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 6 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 7 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 8 | After visiting No 10 , the outspoken MP for Derbyshire South and former junior health minister , said : ‘ The Prime Minister and I had a long and friendly discussion , and I was very honoured to be asked to join his Government . |
| 9 | But what I saw when we went to Spain in 1978 and I had a long , relaxed talk with James in the patio of our common hotel , actually frightened me . |
| 10 | Earlier in the week Kit Prescott and I had a long , relaxed hour and a half with one of the top African politicians . |
| 11 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 12 | Her hair was short and dark , and she had a long face with a mobile mouth and crooked teeth . |
| 13 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 14 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 15 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 16 | Well if we had a long a long thing to read . |
| 17 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 18 | She held the young man 's prick — and he had a long and a thick one … ) |
| 19 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 20 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 21 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 22 | We arrived back at about seven pm , had our evening meal and then got an early night because we had a long day ahead of us . |
| 23 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 24 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 25 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 26 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |