Example sentences of "have [vb pp] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Lowe ( Public Assistance Officer ) has had long talks with him and is convinced that the man is not normal ; he continually contradicts himself and his great joy is getting publicity . |
| 2 | It is like saying that if Jim Bloggs is an ass it means he has got long ears and brays . |
| 3 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 4 | Since the overthrow of the country 's first President , Kwame Nkrumah , in a coup in February 1966 , Ghana has experienced long periods of military rule interspersed with short-lived civilian governments . |
| 5 | Development of an All Wales Strategy has involved long discussions at county level between social services department personnel , representatives from voluntary organisations , parents and sometimes consumers . |
| 6 | For the first time she found herself wondering whether he had resented not only Hugo but all the family , and whether that subsequent betrayal could have had long roots in the soil of an old envy . |
| 7 | They must have had long journies , so I expect they 're having a lie in , I know I would . |
| 8 | He will have spent long years mastering this art . |
| 9 | Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober . |
| 10 | Some families in difficulties appear to have had long histories of problems , and often the parents themselves have suffered a difficult childhood . |
| 11 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 12 | to do with the what the well we 've got instead of all these individual prints I 've got I 've got long ones cos if the |
| 13 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 14 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 15 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 16 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
| 17 | And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming . |
| 18 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 19 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 20 | He had worked long hours to acquire a complete understanding of the Plan and to learn Mark 's presentation word for word . |
| 21 | Her father had worked long hours for the convent in his time , he had paid many times over in advance for his child to be housed and educated , had he but known it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But also he had imbibed long years of his wife 's punctuality and orderliness . |
| 24 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 25 | Already the refs have had long meetings working out just how strict or just how lenient they are going to be . |
| 26 | We have had long meetings with the Secretary of State for Energy on the future of Monktonhall . |
| 27 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 28 | Kendall said last night : ‘ I have had long talks with Peter and I am optimistic that I can get him to come to City . |
| 29 | Some acupuncturists find that they can not treat patients who have had long courses of antibiotic therapy until several months after this treatment has finished . |
| 30 | Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space . |