Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 61 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 62 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 63 | Both have gone on for a long time . |
| 64 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 65 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 66 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 67 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 68 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 69 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 70 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 71 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
| 72 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 73 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 74 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 75 | They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum . |
| 76 | ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time . |
| 77 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 78 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 79 | so I thought you were going to cos you did n't come back for a long time . |
| 80 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
| 81 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 82 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 83 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 84 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 85 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 86 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 87 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 88 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 89 | ‘ If I 'm dreaming I hope I do n't wake up for a long time , ’ he says . |
| 90 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |