Example sentences of "had [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence , the last six years of Henry 's reign had witnessed a long and bitter power struggle between the conservatives led by Gardiner and Norfolk , and the evangelicals led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer , Sir Anthony Denny , and the Seymour uncles of Prince Edward . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 4 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 5 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 6 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 7 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 8 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 9 | The stranger 's clothes were dusty and muddy , as if he had travelled a long way . |
| 10 | France 's Maghreb policy was criticized on Nov. 16 by the Polisario Front , which had waged a long struggle for independence in Western Sahara . |
| 11 | She wore another severe suit , grey this time over a white blouse , but perhaps in honour of the occasion had added a long twisted rope of coral , pearls and crystal . |
| 12 | Mike ( Twid ) Turner had added a long ( 65m ) pitch on The Pinnacle , Cloggy . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 19 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
| 22 | He had come a long way . |
| 23 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 24 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 25 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 26 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 27 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 30 | 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 " . |