Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think I will give up being Chair this time , I 've done it too long , too long , and I 've had it John as Co-Chair during the year and I hope that he 'll be able to carry on as , as Chair Person , I think really I 've done it , done it for long enough erm , and we 'll have to ask , we hope , we hope the Treasurer just taken over will carry on |
| 2 | You 've known me too long to think a dumb thing like that . |
| 3 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid I 've kept you too long and tired you . |
| 5 | But they had kept her too long and she had n't wanted to appear rude because they were nice people , and now she was very , very late . |