Example sentences of "[vb past] long had " in BNC.
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| 1 | She visited the museum and caressed the Elgin Marbles — upon which she , and successive Greek governments , had long had a claim . |
| 2 | Cripps , at that time President of the Board of Trade , had long had a penchant for machinery-of-government matters and had been active as a minister in the wartime Coalition on reconstruction committees established to consider the issue . |
| 3 | As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . |
| 4 | The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns . |
| 5 | ‘ Folk ’ tunes , especially of Scottish origin , had long had a strong presence in the North-East regional culture ; and , as in other areas of the country , they had also been taken up by middle-class circles . |
| 6 | According to Marenches , he and the Shah had long had an excellent relationship . |
| 7 | Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas , hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there . |
| 8 | Mathematics had long had , in the ‘ Arabic ’ numerals coming originally from India , and in the symbols which had been invented from the seventeenth century on , an international language of symbols . |