Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 6 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 7 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 8 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 9 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 10 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 11 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 12 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 13 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 14 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 15 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 16 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 17 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 18 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 19 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 20 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 21 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 22 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 23 | We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |