Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
2 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
9 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He had come a long way . |
12 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
13 | They had come a long way very fast . |
14 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
15 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
16 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
19 | 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 " . |
20 | 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 ’ . |
21 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
22 | He had made a long journey , borrowing fuel for his plane . |
23 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
24 | 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 . ’ |
25 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |
26 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
27 | It was St Patrick 's Night , 1912 , and Sergeant O'Neil had had a long day , what with the parade and all . |
28 | Miss Lodsworth had had a long day . |
29 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
30 | 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 . |