Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 32 | We had a long journey back to Holland . |
| 33 | We had a long journey . ’ |
| 34 | In August we had a long weekend in the Lakes , with Rob , Joyce & Ewan which went well , & also a week in Telford with Richard which we thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 35 | We had a long chat . ’ |
| 36 | So she came and talked to 'em we had a long chat and actually I mean it er does sound very interesting . |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Everyone was really excited even though we had a long coach journey ahead of us . |
| 40 | Just to be on the safe side we had a long rope attached to the raft and tied round a tree on the bank so that if the Indians lost control the rope would pull it to a stop . |
| 41 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 42 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ Oh , we had a long talk , ’ Sheila said airily . |
| 45 | He came to two of my concerts and afterwards we had a long talk . |
| 46 | ‘ We had a long talk when we had dinner together , ’ Haverford said out of a silence in respect of the dead . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | ‘ We had a long talk about the future . ’ |
| 49 | We had a long piece of plastic tubing to help each other with . |
| 50 | We had a long record of significant invention and development of such items as polyester fabric ( Terylene and Crimplene ) but were we really capable of producing to order , so to speak , a constant family of new variations on a theme ? |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | We had a long wait , because it was necessary to fill up the tank with water , this locomotive takes 5000 gallons and there was a problem with low water supply pressure . |
| 53 | We had a long debate in Committee on sustainable development . |
| 54 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |
| 55 | You know , we had a long time really just to kind of toss out . |
| 56 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 57 | They had a long way to go . |
| 58 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 59 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 60 | 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 . |