Example sentences of "have long [adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manor has long since been broken up and sold off and Andrew now only holds small pieces of land , though these include some of the grass and trees where the proclamation is made . |
| 2 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 3 | ‘ As a trade issue , the beef ban has long since been wiped out , ’ The Scotsman was told . |
| 4 | If Robson Rhodes had not decided to make fundamental changes in its operating style five years ago , the chances are that it would have long since been swallowed up by one of its rivals . |
| 5 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 6 | He reached up to his skull as if to seize the beads which had once adorned his scalp , though those had long since been shorn off along with his excess of black greasy hair ; as if to tug those and release an inner pressure . |
| 7 | The more fertile areas of farmland along the coast had long since been taken over by German farmers . |
| 8 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 9 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |