Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so long [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attack on individuals had become increasingly scandalous : he described an elderly Senate colleague as " a living miracle " — the only man who has lived so long with neither brains nor guts " . |
| 2 | She had lived so long within its walls that , when the great-grandfather of Miss Douglas found it necessary to abandon the castle from its ruinous state , she refused to do so and continued to find shelter there till her death , towards the beginning of the last century . |
| 3 | Now I believe that you test the liberal democracy , not by the ease with which majorities get their way but on the extent to which you accommodate the views of committed minorities and we 've lived so long with majority rule , masquerading as democracy , that we 've forgotten that that is more akin to dictatorship than anything else . |
| 4 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 5 | ‘ You have lived so long in your fortress that you have forgotten , even if you ever knew . |