Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 6 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 7 | Well you just need to ask her for a long of it anyway . |