Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 2 | The even more extraordinary notion , that clients ' opinions could be used to reshape social work practice into a more effective intervention , and that social policy itself could be responsive to the views of its recipients , has taken even longer to achieve respectability amongst social commentators . |
| 3 | It has taken too long to persuade the police that racial attacks even exist for the press to adopt some absurd pretence to being colour-blind now . |
| 4 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 5 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 6 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 7 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 8 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 9 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 10 | But the final reconciliation has taken so long . |
| 11 | The MPs called on health boards to act quickly to ensure adequate cover in a number of important related areas and said : ‘ We are concerned that it has taken so long to achieve such important improvements in the balance of medical staffing . ’ |
| 12 | His attack on individuals had become increasingly scandalous : he described an elderly Senate colleague as " a living miracle " — the only man who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts " . |
| 13 | Barley thrives in somewhat cooler climes and , being less ‘ hungry ’ , does not need such rich soil — it tends to grow too long and ‘ lodge ’ on very strong soils — but it still needs a longish season to ripen well . |
| 14 | It uses ascii character coding , and tends to produce very long files . |
| 15 | walks down about eight o'clock , talk about long legs , she 's got really long legs right , this one . |
| 16 | Cos his hair 's got so long , it 's longer than mine . |
| 17 | And it 's taken that long for Dave to get his arse in gear and he 's a so slow . |
| 18 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry that it 's taken so long . |
| 20 | The reason the programme 's taken so long , was to find a time when he 's available . |