Example sentences of "[pron] had [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |