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

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1 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
2 I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered .
3 Now people have been looking at this for a long time .
4 I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement .
5 The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’
6 I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this .
7 Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote .
8 They remained like this for a long time .
9 ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas .
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