Example sentences of "'d long [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 2 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 3 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 5 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |