Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 2 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 3 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've got longer reach than us . |
| 5 | They had studied long hours , both of them , they had burned the midnight oil while munching their way through textbooks and qualifications , through overtime and late-night meetings . |
| 6 | In many cases they have gone long periods before they have even made a profit . |
| 7 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |