Example sentences of "had long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board had long debates about whether the content of degrees in the areas should be for or in librarianship , what the academic content of study should be , and what career opportunities would be open to students if they were not subject graduates . |
| 2 | I have phoned Sarah many times and had long talks with her about the welfare of goats . |
| 3 | Lesbianism held no terrors for the Major , who had long experience of the women 's services . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the basic directions of economic reform are rather similar to Hungary , though the initial position is quite different , in that Yugoslavia already had long experience of worker-managed firms as well as a high degree of monetary mismanagement ( including a spell of hyperinflation ) resulting from inability of the country 's federal structure to impose monetary discipline . |
| 5 | A Braemar vet , Ian Watt , said that he had long experience of co-operating with farmers and commented : ‘ Many years ago , I was involved with the MacRobert Trust on a consultancy basis . |
| 6 | Though in the end his rights prevailed , the dispute had long repercussions on his control over the counts and castellans of the demesne . |
| 7 | That was a story Hopper liked to tell , to demonstrate how they were all good friends who were creating a new style of acting ; later , when Nicholson arrived , they had long discussions about this era and the influences it had on all of them . |
| 8 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 9 | We had long discussions about whatever we liked , and during term-time Don Cattabianchi would sometimes help us with our homework . |
| 10 | In Committee , we had long discussions about that , and were genuinely sympathetic to the worries expressed by the citizens advice bureaux . |
| 11 | John and I had long discussions on planning applications , I shall be interested to hear |
| 12 | The girls had long ringlets of the deepest black that cascaded down their backs , while the boy 's hair , similarly black and lustrous , was tied in a ponytail at his neck . |
| 13 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 14 | ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’ |
| 15 | They had long saloons with six side windows with two opening lights above each . |
| 16 | Once again the meeting was a great success ; the Emperor had long conversations with the Prince Consort , Lord Palmerston and the Foreign Secretary , Lord Clarendon , while the Empress devoted herself to the Queen and the royal children . |
| 17 | Bischof had long conversations with him in Paris and London , in which they discussed choices to be made , goals to be pursued , and the practical and moral aspects of their work . |