Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so long " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Linighan 's teammates , astonished by his courage in heading home the winner in the dying seconds of extra-time while suffering two serious injuries , reckoned it was a just reward for the defender who has battled so long to rid himself of the ‘ million pound misfit ’ tag . |
| 2 | One of the reasons that this report has taken so long to appear is that , scanning the literature arriving in my library , I kept coming across new relevant areas of work . |
| 3 | Oh I 've forgot to say under advisory committee , I , this has taken so long , I 've completely forgot about it . |
| 4 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 5 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 6 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 7 | But the final reconciliation has taken so long . |
| 8 | The MPs called on health boards to act quickly to ensure adequate cover in a number of important related areas and said : ‘ We are concerned that it has taken so long to achieve such important improvements in the balance of medical staffing . ’ |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 11 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 12 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 13 | Thank you for your letter of 19 May and I apologise for having taken so long to reply . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the reported effect on some of the older generation is to make them regret having lived so long and apologize for their need to call on more services than do younger people ( Norman 1987b ) . |
| 15 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 16 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 19 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Babushka had taken so long to clean her cabin that it was morning and the star no longer shone in the sky . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've waited so long to hear you say you found me attractive , my darling ! |
| 27 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 28 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 29 | The tour she had waited so long to unleash had begun two weeks earlier on the other side of the world . |
| 30 | 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 . |