Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in the long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashdown has been quick to contrast his 55 walkabouts with Mr Kinnock 's ‘ three ’ , and he has put in the long hours with a soldier 's determination to ‘ get the job done ’ . |
| 2 | Most of its fruit had fallen in the long grass , where its rotting skin had been pecked and tunnelled by birds and worms . |
| 3 | The Founders ' powers had emerged in the long wrangle with GLEB . |
| 4 | It was the first time that anything of that kind had happened in the long history of the RUC and its predecessor , the RIC . |
| 5 | Although it is difficult to reach firm conclusions from the small number of patients who underwent balloon counterpulsation , those few who have survived in the long term underwent such a procedure while their renal function was still normal or nearly normal and their renal state remained stable until transplantation . |