Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 2 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 3 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 4 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 5 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 6 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 7 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 8 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 9 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 10 | For indeed the demand and supply schedules do not in practice remain unchanged for a long time together , but are constantly being changed ; and every change in them alters the equilibrium amount and the equilibrium price , and thus gives new positions to the centres about which the amount and the price tend to oscillate . [ … ] |
| 11 | There is a high mortality associated with old people who lie undetected for a long time , both related to the injury sustained and to complications ; such as hypothermia , dehydration , bronchopneumonia and breakdown of pressure areas ( Wild et al , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 13 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 14 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 15 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 16 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 18 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 19 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 20 | Insulating the tank like this will mean your water will stay hot for a longer time , and so should reduce water heating costs . |
| 21 | Hari lay awake for a long time , staring into the darkness . |
| 22 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 23 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 24 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 25 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |
| 26 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 27 | That night , Alice lay awake for a long time , listening to the noises of the old house , trying to hear if her mother was weeping . |
| 28 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 29 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 30 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |