Example sentences of "had have a long " in BNC.

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1 She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way .
2 It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all .
3 Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign .
4 Miss Lodsworth had had a long day .
5 Ballylumford had had a long , bitter industrial dispute a few months earlier and the scars were raw and unhealed .
6 He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy .
7 He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled .
8 He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well .
9 Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen .
10 We had had a long wet day on the moors but in the late afternoon the weather cleared .
11 A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty .
12 The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades .
13 And it was apparently during that hospital visit that Ross and his brother had had a long serious talk about what would be best for the children .
14 The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) .
15 He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it .
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