Example sentences of "have [vb pp] too long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken too long to persuade the police that racial attacks even exist for the press to adopt some absurd pretence to being colour-blind now . |
| 2 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 3 | Often , in the course of these , which involved a lot of wandering about among the surrounding woods and fields , we had occasion to urinate together ( it would have taken too long to go home ) and the opportunity to examine one another 's bodies . |
| 4 | Does n't seem you 've got too long once you 've finished . |
| 5 | Lowell had had too long to think and his thoughts were tortuous . |
| 6 | Now the first step was from as I said earlier , I had stayed too long at I thought . |
| 7 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 8 | She had spoken too long to pretend any longer to be asleep , and so she twisted and touched Rosa 's back , softly , with a hand on her shoulder to make her face her . |
| 9 | Well look how we get do n't we , when er we 've gone too long with shower of rain |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had waited too long to make his constitutional views known . |
| 15 | ‘ A moment always comes when we have looked too long at a landscape … |