Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've waited so long to hear you say you found me attractive , my darling ! |
| 3 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , I have waited so long to see you , ’ said Babushka . |
| 5 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 9 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 10 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 11 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 12 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 13 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 14 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 15 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 16 | ‘ You have lived so long in your fortress that you have forgotten , even if you ever knew . |
| 17 | You do n't want to lose what you have worked so long to achieve , so beware of hard-sell techniques . |
| 18 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 20 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 21 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 25 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry that it 's taken so long . |