Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 2 | How that bloody woman has lived this long without getting murdered … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is a miracle he has survived this long . ’ |
| 4 | Doctors could buy the much needed equipment , they would n't have to work such long hours , there would be no need to close down wards , aye or even hospitals . |
| 5 | If he had , she 'd have seen those long legs , whose stride outmatched even hers , she 'd have seen the power of his masculinity … |
| 6 | Oh bloody hell why do they have to put such long words in them ? |
| 7 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 8 | She 'd never have waited this long . |
| 9 | I had to buy another long sleev no I well it 's , it 's a special purchase for tomorrow . |
| 10 | But you 're , well you , supposing you 've got two long conversations , what you want to do is two bits , I can transfer bits out of |
| 11 | felt that he had to justify this long |
| 12 | She had spent those long sleepless hours going back and forth over everything that had happened , every word they 'd spoken , everything she 'd seen , and at some point had come to realise that she 'd been wrong . |
| 13 | If the Witch King had started this long war , Tethlis was determined to finish it , and he might have succeeded had it not been for the decline in power of the dragons . |
| 14 | Then we talked to Miguel again and it turned out the Indian had started this long conversation with him before we could possibly have had the accident . |
| 15 | Christopher — more talkative than usual — was animated in his description of the Highlands , where he had taken several long walks with Alastair . |
| 16 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 17 | In fact , it was only because he was chronically mean that she had lasted this long . |
| 18 | You have enjoyed two long marriages . |
| 19 | We have had 20 long years of murder and destruction in the Province . |
| 20 | he 's got such long rubber legs has n't he , he looked ridiculous , but he ai nt 'arf gone thin , he 's really gone thin so , now do I have to bake this blind first |
| 21 | Peter 's got this long arrow in his room . |
| 22 | In the past , some of Britain 's best known defence contracters have provided secure long term employment in the constituency , but thousands have been made redundant in the last two years . |
| 23 | ‘ I am constantly in a state of surprise that I have survived this long as an actor . |
| 24 | It 's because you are not foolish you have lived this long . |