Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 32 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 33 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 34 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 35 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 36 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 37 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 38 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 39 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 40 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 41 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 42 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 43 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 44 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 45 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 46 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 47 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 48 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 49 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 50 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 51 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 52 | It does n't hit you for a long time what you have achieved . |
| 53 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 54 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |