Example sentences of "had [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was up for a western , and he had the long hair , but after school he went to a barber and had his head shaved . |
| 2 | Where had the long silences gone , Molly wondered , into which she used to retreat in the company of her parents ? |
| 3 | That he had the long record of offenses , mainly dishonesty and some for violence against the police . |
| 4 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |
| 5 | She had trapped a fellow-student at Cambridge — ‘ Brian had the longest hair in college , ’ she chirped admiringly , ‘ and as soon as we 'd graduated , we got married — for fun . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We had the longest telephone talk ever known to the Lulling exchange last night . |
| 7 | The Diplodocus had the longest neck of all the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | There was Britain — the country with which Iran had the longest association and with which many Iranians had an almost neurotic relationship . |
| 9 | The position of Thakin Soe , who had the longest record of underground resistance , was even more unclear . |
| 10 | ‘ Kanza had the longer legs . ’ |
| 11 | They were as good as we could make them , we felt , and we had a long think . |
| 12 | To take one example , in November 1987 the North-West Regional News introduced by Stuart Hall had a long feature as their opening item : |
| 13 | They all had a long tradition of agrarian troubles , and all suffered from overpopulation and land scarcity . |
| 14 | Cancer research had a long tradition of support from private contributions , but new charities devoted to particular diseases , such as arthritis and rheumatism , leukaemia , and muscular dystrophy , were founded and became a great source of strength to workers whose interests had or might have application to the desired objectives . |
| 15 | George Herbert was a member of a family which had come over with William the Conqueror and had a long tradition of service to the Crown . |
| 16 | The town and its surrounding rural communities already had a long tradition of Dissent , but just over 20 miles to the east the situation in Doncaster was very different . |
| 17 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 18 | That notion had a long history , and had by no means been deserted by post-classical law . |
| 19 | Unlike un-historical nations , Poland had a long history to recall and refurbish . |
| 20 | The tradition of writing ‘ effusions ’ in blank verse had a long history in the eighteenth century , culminating in The Task by William Cowper . |
| 21 | On the contrary , the idea of the Kingdom had a long history in the life of Israel , and the coming of Christ coincided with a feverish wave of expectancy within the nation . |
| 22 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 23 | Films were cast for an international market in the Hollywood of the 1920s ; and international press syndication had a long history . |
| 24 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 25 | The male Moodies had a long history of accidental death . |
| 26 | John had a long history of academic failure . |
| 27 | He had a long history of truancy . |
| 28 | The political police in the Soviet Union had a long history stretching back to tsarist times . |
| 29 | The story of Hello , Dolly ! had a long history . |
| 30 | Bulgaria also had a long history of Byzantine building of churches and monasteries but remains of original work are not numerous or of high quality . |