Example sentences of "had [vb pp] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to Arran I had walked long days sometimes speaking to no one and moving through completely new landscapes . |
| 2 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 3 | John 's father left the family when John was seven , although he had spent long periods away when John was younger . |
| 4 | And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had worked long hours to acquire a complete understanding of the Plan and to learn Mark 's presentation word for word . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But also he had imbibed long years of his wife 's punctuality and orderliness . |