Example sentences of "long [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town outside was long since ruined and empty , and he preferred St Hilarion in the heat of the day . |
| 2 | Their votes will be vital if seats long since lost to the Conservatives are to be regained . |
| 3 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 4 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 5 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 6 | Here , almost untouched by time , because it was regularly subsidised by the state and enthusiastically supported by the Danish monarchy , was the original French style of dancing from the late 18th and early 19th centuries , long since lost in Paris . |
| 7 | ’ Jamie wrote his name in the beer on the table-top with the knuckle of a finger long since lost in battle . |
| 8 | John , of course , had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman . |
| 9 | By this time , of course , Mwafrika and its successors had long since lost their former political stance . |
| 10 | Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects . |
| 11 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 12 | Non-medical advocates of reform have long since lost faith in that concept . |
| 13 | All of these uses of the railway station survive in the oral evidence of many North American villages and townships that have long since lost their rail service . |
| 14 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 15 | But he always returned to the streets of Paris for inspiration , recording aspects of city life long since lost ; finding both joy and humour amidst scenes of poverty . |
| 16 | I 've long since pledged my sword to any who would help rid this borough of the damned Daine . |
| 17 | The first to come forward was Bertram Morris who , back in his student days in the 1930s , had obtained a pilot 's ‘ A ’ licence which had long since expired . |
| 18 | Among genres long since completed and in part already dead , the novel is the only developing genre . |
| 19 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 20 | A shaft of disgust she thought she had long since escaped . |
| 21 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 22 | Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them . |
| 23 | For loved ones long since died . |
| 24 | Progressive reforms dating from the beginning of the twentieth century such as the presidential preference primary , the direct primary , cross filing , the initiative and the referendum had long since destroyed party machines and undermined the power of party bosses . |
| 25 | The records of that hospital seem to have been long since destroyed , but Vivien 's brother , Maurice Haigh-Wood , has explained what happened to her : a " reception order " was drawn up for her committal . |
| 26 | A similar species used to inhabit Loch na Moal Choire , long since fished out , but the loch still provides sport with native wild brown trout . |
| 27 | Zhukov had long since realized that there was little money in photographic portraiture and had turned his talents to other , more profitable sidelines . |
| 28 | She had long since realized her husband worked for the government , but he had never discussed it with her , much less told her he was a spy . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 30 | The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad . |