Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 2 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 3 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 4 | ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea . |
| 5 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 6 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 7 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 8 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 9 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 10 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 11 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 12 | He had come a long way . |
| 13 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 14 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 15 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 16 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 17 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 18 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 19 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 20 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 21 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 22 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 23 | He said he had taken into account that the intended victim had suffered no long term phsyical injuries . |
| 24 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
| 25 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |
| 26 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 27 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 28 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 29 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
| 30 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |