Example sentences of "had [verb] [pos pn] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He , too , had combed his long hair for the outing and had gone to the lengths of scrubbing the blue paint from his fingers .
2 Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space .
3 She had pinned her long hair up in an elegant knot on top of her head , and was wearing a chic little number which Alexandra recognized immediately as a Thierry Mugler .
4 By the time Mains and company had twirled their long knives , the only long-service survivors were Terry Wright , John Kirwan and Grant Fox in the backs , and Michael Jones , Mike Brewer , Zinzan Brooke , Ian Jones , Steve McDowell , Loe and Fitzpatrick in the forwards .
5 The driver had found them a parking slot some forty yards distant , and there the four man back-up team had begun their long vigil .
6 She had piled her long hair into a sleek chignon , and tiny wisps escaped across her brow and to the nape of her neck .
7 She ceased to wonder that he had survived his long ordeal of flight and hiding and hunger ; he was durable beyond most men .
8 If only Corbett had kept his long nose out of this God-forsaken business !
9 Duroc had barely heard of the Ancient Adversary , but he knew this entity was one of the few Great Unseen Powers that stood in opposition to the Dark Ones , the extra-dimensional masters to whom Nguyen Seth had dedicated his long life .
10 He had known the writer Hope Mirrlees for some years , at first through her friendship with the Woolfs ( the Hogarth Press had published her long poem , Paris , three years before The Waste Land ) , and she was now living with her mother and spinster aunt .
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