Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 ) If Washburn has discovered the centre of the universe within our own solar system , how come it has taken them so long to tell anybody about it ? |
| 2 | THE only thing that puzzles me about the Government decision to ban the Northern Irish Protestant terror gang , the UDA , is why it has taken them so long to do it . |
| 3 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 4 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 5 | It had taken her so long to walk round , it took hardly more than three minutes in the boat . |
| 6 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 7 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 8 | It 's ridiculous that they 've left it so long to tell us . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 10 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |