Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the first step was from as I said earlier , I had stayed too long at I thought . |
| 2 | Does n't seem you 've got too long once you 've finished . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 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 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 . |
| 6 | Well look how we get do n't we , when er we 've gone too long with shower of rain |
| 7 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 8 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had waited too long to make his constitutional views known . |
| 12 | 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 . |