Example sentences of "long [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 Zhukov had long since realized that there was little money in photographic portraiture and had turned his talents to other , more profitable sidelines .
2 ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac .
3 Hindus have long since seen that we have to transcend separateness .
4 The tenants , on the other hand , had long since realised that if they could n't boil a kettle or breathe and do all the things normal families do without causing condensation dampness , then there must be something wrong with the houses , not with the people who live in them .
5 She had long since decided that , in her own words , ‘ legend always triumphs over historical fact ’ .
6 Both the military and civilian sector in the RSA have long since discovered that the only replacement for a Dakota is another Dakota !
7 MESSRS McAndrew and Davison have long since discovered that , post-retirement , the world is their oyster .
8 The Navaho had long since learned that the best way to live was to stick to the land no white man would want to take from him .
9 But they had long since agreed that there was nowhere to touch the English countryside .
10 She had long since abandoned that hope .
11 Moreover , the cross breeding of domestic animals and livestock had long since proved that such changes could be artificially induced .
12 At the junction with the road she braked just long enough to see that nothing was coming then turned right and careered wildly down the long hill into the village .
13 If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs .
14 We 've known each for long enough to know that silence is better if there is nothing specific to say .
15 ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can .
16 I 've lived in this town long enough to know that when people are talking about a picture in a certain way you do n't need to spend a lot of money on hype , just a little in the right media and the nominations start piling up .
17 We had all been prisoners long enough to know that you must allow people to be unbalanced if they felt like it .
18 Masklin had lived in the Store long enough to know that where there was a lamp , there was a wire .
19 Firstly , I have been in football management long enough to know that team changes at this late stage will do nothing for the confidence of existing players .
20 I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different ,
21 Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future .
22 Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them .
23 I have been in the House long enough to know that it is not appropriate for me to comment on evidence given to a Select Committee until that Committee has reported .
24 I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care .
25 She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly .
26 But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there .
27 He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following .
28 One of the six proposed tests for confirming brain-stem death is that ‘ No respiratory movements occur when the patient is disconnected from the mechanical ventilator for long enough to ensure that the arterial carbon dioxide tension rises above the threshold for stimulating respiration . ’
29 Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out .
30 Taylor long ago argued that the advantages emerged over several years of contact and that in an emergency most experienced doctors could successfully manage their patient 's problem .
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