Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home .
2 He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane .
3 While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia .
4 But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time .
5 The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way .
6 Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers .
7 He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy .
8 He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well .
9 Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign .
10 Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class .
11 He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark .
12 He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it .
13 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
14 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
15 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
16 He had come a long way .
17 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
18 He had walked a long way that day .
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