Example sentences of "have long [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 2 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 3 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 4 | Colonel Fergusson had long since given up trying to understand the business . |
| 5 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |
| 6 | Birds have long since given up trying to nest in her eaves . |
| 7 | This remains one of the strongest reasons why so many parents still want their children to have RE even though they themselves have long since given up having much to do with religion . |