Example sentences of "had [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 2 | She had trapped a fellow-student at Cambridge — ‘ Brian had the longest hair in college , ’ she chirped admiringly , ‘ and as soon as we 'd graduated , we got married — for fun . ’ |
| 3 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 4 | The position of Thakin Soe , who had the longest record of underground resistance , was even more unclear . |
| 5 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 6 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 7 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 8 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 9 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 10 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 11 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 12 | John had a long history of academic failure . |
| 13 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 14 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |
| 15 | Many mothers with parenting difficulties had a long history of emotional problems themselves , and seemed generally lacking in sensitivity to their children 's anxieties and needs rather than deficient in specific child management techniques . |
| 16 | But 41 year old Gould had a long history of crime . |
| 17 | In both cases the men concerned had a long history of previous convictions , with the killer already in jail following the deaths of two other boys . |
| 18 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 19 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 20 | Had a long chat with Dad about which service we should attend . |
| 21 | So I had a long chat with the , with the cleansing officer and the main point |
| 22 | I had a long chat with during the trip when , amongst other topics , we recalled the days of the agricultural show season and some of the hectic times we had , especially at the Norfolk and Suffolk shows . |
| 23 | er , I did n't see a nun at , most of them were just ordinary nursing staff , just popped in to see how I was and we had a long chat about |
| 24 | They had a long chat in Afrikaans ; Herbert specially mentioned the language because it was only the survivors of the family 's oldest generation who still habitually spoke it . |
| 25 | Knowing that she had a long day in front of her , Laura decided to follow her friend 's good example . |
| 26 | They forced themselves to eat the porridge , the eggs fresh from the nest , for they had a long day before them . |
| 27 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 28 | William Jackson and John Turner had a long discussion about exporting , as they were both inexperienced in such matters , and they listed the strengths and weaknesses of Quality Kraft Carpets in order to arrive at a decision as to which would be the most appropriate overseas market to enter . |
| 29 | Because we had a long discussion about training needs , audits and all this sort of thing . |
| 30 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |