Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For long enough I 've said budget engineers run the job . |
| 2 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 3 | For so long I 'd managed to hold off your curiosity but I was near to breaking-point . |
| 4 | For so long he had wondered if he would ever walk abroad again . |
| 5 | For so long she 'd held the secrets of her past under lock and key , barely allowing even Kelly much more than a glimpse into her background . |
| 6 | She was still not completely used to the journey northwards to the small empty house , when for so long she had gone southwards to the big flat near Westminster Cathedral , where her mother had waited , eager to hear every detail of her day . |
| 7 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 8 | erm , yes so if we went to them sort of fairly soon we 'd |
| 9 | By the time that you were ready to go up into Standard Three , you had to be proficient to the twelve times table but it did not stop there for later on you had measurement , area , weight and many others . |
| 10 | How do you find it living in the flats compared with anywhere else you 've lived ? |
| 11 | It was Janet who found , during the course of his work , that patients suffering from what he termed ‘ neurotic disorders ’ would often have significant gaps in their long-term memories — they had actually managed to block out incidents from long ago which had been particularly painful or excessively distressing . |
| 12 | Well that was the room as well that we had the leak from so then we had the neighbour up there . |
| 13 | From early on we had destined our letters to destruction . |
| 14 | Was it really only the day before yesterday when everything had been so pleasant and normal ? |
| 15 | From now on we had the greatest difficulty in talking to one another , let alone meeting . |
| 16 | In fact , I think from now on you 'd better keep the jeep for yourself . |
| 17 | And when he sat in here like they 've got like two glass doors |
| 18 | Until quite recently it has not been possible to track the land use implications of such economic and social changes in any detail . |
| 19 | Er the problem with the job is it 's very tight inside there so we 've had to use cranes and basically poured concrete er ours is being done by a separate sub-contractor . |
| 20 | From then on they had to shift for themselves . ’ |
| 21 | From then on they have developed as an almost necessary part of Church life . |
| 22 | And from then on it had never happened . |
| 23 | From then on it had been a funny old kind of a day . |
| 24 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ So from then on I had to make sure that everything I presented to Shawcraft was in the form of a very concise constructional drawing — and that took time — a lot of time . |
| 26 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 27 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 28 | The problem for would-be physiological psychologists is that until relatively recently there have been no other natural phenomena or man-made devices that we understand better than human behaviour that could act as a model or analogy . |
| 29 | There were probably plants living in hilly regions from quite early which have left little fossil record , and this may account for some of the gaps in the preserved fossils . |
| 30 | Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf . |