Example sentences of "have [adv] since [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 7 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 8 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had long since grown out of her disco dingbat phase . |
| 11 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 12 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 13 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |