Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 3 | He 'd fought a long battle against the boys ’ religious indoctrination . |
| 4 | Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 7 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 8 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 9 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 10 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 11 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 12 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 13 | He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled . |
| 14 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 15 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 16 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 17 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 18 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 19 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 20 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 21 | He had come a long way . |
| 22 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 23 | He had walked a long way that day . |
| 24 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |
| 25 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |