Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory .
2 But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost .
3 Some arose from the difficulties of practical implementation , others had to do with the longer term history of state involvement in sexuality .
4 She knew she had to travel on a long , stony road , without help or sympathy .
5 Speaking at the Co-op 's general meeting last night chairman Bill Allison said : ‘ We had to operate in the longest , deepest recession since the war .
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