Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [not/n't] long been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't long been back from my honeymoon when my new wife was given another fright . |
| 2 | I know we have n't long been acquainted , but will you do me the honour of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ After all , they have n't long been out of a very warm secure environment , have they ? ’ she continued . |
| 4 | It is plain and it is true , but it has n't long been understood . |
| 5 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |