Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] since [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each course involves still further political damage to Major , his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through . |
| 2 | The Tour has long since given up those occasional easy days known as promenades , when the peloton idled along , especially on the Mediterranean coast , as though on a club run . |
| 3 | It is , no doubt , a sign of the times that the flow has long since dried up . |
| 4 | And people whose intolerance of a food has long since cleared up may continue to react to that food for purely psychological reasons . |
| 5 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 6 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 7 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 8 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 9 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 10 | Medical sociology has long since given up looking at process — it 's too busy experiencing illness and waffling on about doctor-patient interaction . |
| 11 | Some , like Lucie , were confident that Death had long since moved on out of the village . |
| 12 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |