Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 2 | Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating . |
| 3 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 4 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 5 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 7 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 8 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 9 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 10 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 11 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 12 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 13 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 14 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 15 | Such dramatic examples of commercial self-interest were not in reality offset by the more representative efforts of companies such as Unilever , Mitchell Cotts and Booker McConnell in English-speaking Africa , or CFAO in French-speaking Africa who had invested on a long term basis for relatively modest returns . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 17 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 18 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 19 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 20 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 21 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 22 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 23 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 24 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
| 25 | These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended . |
| 26 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 27 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 28 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 29 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |