Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 31 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 32 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 34 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 35 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 36 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 37 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 38 | Those X-rays , that had taken so long to photograph , that lengthy session when I had got so friendly with the big machine , had so far resulted in nothing . |
| 39 | Babushka had taken so long to clean her cabin that it was morning and the star no longer shone in the sky . |
| 40 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 41 | I fed a CD of Hugh Masekela into the machine and fought back the urge to get my trumpet out and play along , ruminating on the injustice of a world that had taken so long to discover him . |
| 42 | She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've waited so long to hear you say you found me attractive , my darling ! |
| 45 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 46 | He had waited too long to make his constitutional views known . |
| 47 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 48 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 49 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 50 | ‘ When I saw you again I knew why I had waited so long to marry . |
| 51 | I do n't know how you 've lived so long ! ’ |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | And the longer they dealt with it , the more aggravated our members could become on a shop floor , or that they could have additional disputes you know , on their hands , because of the fact that the dispute or the , the problem had lasted so long . |
| 54 | ( Opposite , bottom ) Many prey species have developed unusually long legs and strange forms of locomotion as refinements of their fleeing behaviour . |
| 55 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |
| 56 | Studies have shown that long term success rates ( ie at one year follow up ) of 10–20% can be achieved [ 7 ] . |
| 57 | In this study we have shown that long term ( 18 months ) ingestion of 133 g/kg dietary fibre resulted in a modest but significant increase in cellular proliferation in the crypts of the proximal colon but not the distal colon of the rat compared with an intake of 17 g/kg dietary fibre . |
| 58 | walks down about eight o'clock , talk about long legs , she 's got really long legs right , this one . |
| 59 | Cos his hair 's got so long , it 's longer than mine . |
| 60 | Erm a lot of us are bothered by eyebrows some of us have got really long coarse hair that grow in the eyebrows and we take those out as well . |