Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 2 | Now the first step was from as I said earlier , I had stayed too long at I thought . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 7 | She had spoken too long to pretend any longer to be asleep , and so she twisted and touched Rosa 's back , softly , with a hand on her shoulder to make her face her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 13 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 14 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 15 | He had waited too long to make his constitutional views known . |
| 16 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |