Example sentences of "have long [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the plans had been shelved , the whole place had been leased out to various small-time manufacturers and warehousemen ; the broken-down sheds and godowns must still be the property of somebody , so too must be the piles of crates whose stencilled lettering had long since faded to pallor . |
| 2 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 3 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 4 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 5 | His former general , Lord George Murray , after a final reproachful letter to the Prince , had long since fled to Holland to end his days in exile , and most of Charles 's other leading supporters had by now either escaped abroad or been rounded up . |
| 6 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |