Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] 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 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Seton did not appear to resent being replaced in the governorship ; indeed he might even have been somewhat relieved , for it was a grievous responsibility in present circumstances and he had borne it sufficiently long . |
| 6 | You 've known me too long to think a dumb thing like that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had taken her so long to walk round , it took hardly more than three minutes in the boat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 12 | It 's ridiculous that they 've left it so long to tell us . |
| 13 | ‘ I am afraid I 've kept you too long and tired you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So I said to the bloke in the shop have you got some shoes he can put , so they had to do it with his trainers on , but he 's made them extra long cos he 's trainer 's is that much bulkier , so er , I said to , he ca n't do it . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |