Example sentences of "they have [verb] 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 Not only must the cells differentiate into a wide variety of cell types such as cartilage and neurons , but they have to migrate long distances to very special sites in the embryo .
8 Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space .
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