Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over .
2 ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe .
3 They 've waited a long time .
4 They 've got a long list , and I assume that the non long listed candidates have been told ?
5 What that obviously means is that they 've drawn from a very , from a very wide area and therefore , they , they 've got the long , main industrial estate , which has thirteen factories , of which only three are occupied , and ten which are unoccupied , which are erm , in fact deteriorating .
6 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
7 They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon
8 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 .
9 They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 They had come a long way very fast .
15 All in all , they have travelled a long way since that night when Santos led a nervous band of campesinos , complete with a BBC camera crew , onto Doña Elsa 's cattle ranch .
16 They have taken a long hard look at the way Japanese firms operate and tried to understand what it is that makes them so much more productive and successful .
17 The new owners will continue to develop distribution in Wales for Harp , Kronenbourg 1664 and Satzenbrau Pils and they have signed a long term trading deal with Harp for the supply of Harp and Guinness products .
18 This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them .
19 After all , they have had a long time to become used to them .
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