Example sentences of "he had a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | A carpenter , he had a long record of hard work , and his family were dependent on his income . |
| 2 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 3 | She said , ‘ Well , he had a long white beard and robe of course . |
| 4 | It was also in this film , when he had a long and exacting monologue at the end , that he finally saw it as what he termed an allegory to his own career : he had the chance of taking a university scholarship but instead chose to take to the road and share his life with some interesting characters , though by this stage of the story in the film itself , Dupea 's liberation is being challenged . |
| 5 | Totally miserable , he had a long , serious chat with Mike Turner of Cambridge about his training and demon drink problems and went home with much to think about . |
| 6 | He had a long putt for a 61 and how he wanted that 61 ! |
| 7 | Michael pointed out how he had a long curve along the top of the board 's edge , and only a small curve at the bottom . |
| 8 | He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach . |
| 9 | Now there was a pleasant , outgoing and jolly man , and I am glad to say he had a long and happy life . |
| 10 | He had a long , thin face , clipped hair which would have delighted the services , and a pair of mournful , liquid brown eyes . |
| 11 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 12 | He had a long walk before him . |
| 13 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 14 | He had a long criminal record at Scotland Yard and was currently on their wanted list for a variety of crimes , the most serious being the murder of an East End gangster . |
| 15 | He had a long conversation with a Russian passenger , who talked about magic and ‘ hidden powers ’ in a most interesting way . |
| 16 | He had a long career in the university , becoming bachelor and then ( c .1284 ) doctor of theology as well as master c .1290 . |
| 17 | He had a long , strong face , bony and angular . |
| 18 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 19 | He had a long nose and dark hair and his eyes looked green from the light of the instruments in the dark cabin . |
| 20 | He had a long thin nose . |
| 21 | He had a long pale face , fashionably spiky fair hair and a pleasant smile . |
| 22 | He had a long , agreeable , supercilious face , dark eyes which dwelt upon his latest customer appreciatively but not offensively , and a general style that hovered oddly between the fastidious and the casual . |
| 23 | He had a long , brown , American-style overcoat , a woollen scarf against the cold , the usual hat , and the sword-stick , perhaps an imitation , which was no doubt a present . |
| 24 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 25 | And you had to get , get a bit of paper and you drew a straight line , straight line , see like that , and if he had two white legs you put a cross , two white see , if he had a long one , he had put a big cross , if he had a long , two long white leg , if he had me behind you put a cross . |
| 26 | She held the young man 's prick — and he had a long and a thick one … ) |
| 27 | When , in another striking instance , the earl of Carlisle reached the capital in 1664 as ambassador from Charles II , he had a long argument with the official deputed to receive him as to which should first descend from his sledge when they met formally . |
| 28 | Part of the lease Arthur signed guaranteed him his brewing water free of tax or pipe money , and in this regard he had a long standing feud with the city authorities which lasted over twenty years . |
| 29 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |