Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 2 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 3 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 4 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 5 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 6 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 7 | He 'd fought a long battle against the boys ’ religious indoctrination . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 10 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 11 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 14 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 15 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 16 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 17 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 18 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 19 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 20 | He had come a long way . |
| 21 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 22 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 23 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 24 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 25 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 28 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 29 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 30 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |