Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] a long " in BNC.

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1 Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) .
2 Er a pair of shoes if you bought it had to last you a long long time .
3 The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period .
4 It had taken her a long time to get over that .
5 It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife .
6 Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time .
7 Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion .
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