Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the long [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer .
2	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 .
3	Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden .
4	As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County .
5	Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test
6	At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear .
7	The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down .
8	During this time Alcock had begun the long process of memorising the night sky ; by 1932 he already knew the position of most stars that can be seen by the naked eye .
9	Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match .

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