Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 2 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 3 | to do with the what the well we 've got instead of all these individual prints I 've got I 've got long ones cos if the |
| 4 | Kendall said last night : ‘ I have had long talks with Peter and I am optimistic that I can get him to come to City . |
| 5 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 6 | We have worked long hours . |
| 7 | We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall . |
| 8 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 9 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 10 | They had studied long hours , both of them , they had burned the midnight oil while munching their way through textbooks and qualifications , through overtime and late-night meetings . |
| 11 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 12 | Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo . |
| 13 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |
| 14 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 15 | But also he had imbibed long years of his wife 's punctuality and orderliness . |
| 16 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 17 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
| 18 | He had worked long hours to acquire a complete understanding of the Plan and to learn Mark 's presentation word for word . |
| 19 | ‘ Besides , it 's got long sleeves , has n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | summer , I suppose it 's not meant for summer cos it 's got long sleeves . |
| 21 | He 's got long cupboards from the window right up to the ceiling . |