Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have long been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Rouncewell 's son , Watt , who has long been in love with Rosa , eventually marries her . |
| 2 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 3 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 4 | The Kirkwoods had to sell their horses , had to endure the slow oncoming tread of gentility in all its shabbiness , to watch the encroaching , ever-drawing-near of the Irish natives who had long been in the tenure and service of the Great House , and now never would be again . |
| 5 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |