Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [art] long time " in BNC.

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31 ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’
32 ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time .
33 I 'll see that bugger tomorrow mornin' if I have to get up at five , an , I 'll tell him what I 've meant to do for a long time ; I 'll take the can along to the authorities .
34 This is one of the best new recordings of Honegger 's music to have appeared for a long time .
35 ‘ You see , we had n't intended to get married for a long time yet — there being so many drawbacks , ’ she began .
36 And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me .
37 Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him .
38 The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs .
39 He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time .
40 Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time .
41 Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time .
42 An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time .
43 At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time .
44 Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time .
45 After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her .
46 Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS .
47 Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time .
48 first thing I 've had for a long time is er that .
49 why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way .
50 He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home .
51 We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by .
52 She had known for a long time now .
53 He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself .
54 at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time .
55 In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time .
56 It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold .
57 You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ?
58 Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way .
59 Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother .
60 There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time .
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