Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 32 | He said he had taken into account that the intended victim had suffered no long term phsyical injuries . |
| 33 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 34 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 35 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 36 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 37 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 38 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 39 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 40 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
| 41 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
| 42 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 43 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 44 | Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen . |
| 45 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 46 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 47 | And there was the erm there was a top called the window breaker , and it was a special top that had got a long stem on it and a big round like a mushroom , it was like a mushroom almost . |
| 48 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 49 | Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era . |
| 50 | Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden . |
| 51 | Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing . |
| 52 | The other man had difficulty starting the machine and had to put a long handle in the front and turn it several times before the engine roared into life startling the children again . |
| 53 | He had walked a long way that day . |
| 54 | It showed that the junior had driven a long pin right through the patient 's brain . |
| 55 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 56 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 57 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 58 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 59 | It was agreed this was not easy to do and it illustrated that deciding whether pupils had attained a long list of criteria would be a very considerable task . |
| 60 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |