Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
2 ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy .
3 It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission .
4 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
5 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
6 Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India .
7 We 've been away for a long time .
8 ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’
9 ‘ We 've been apart for a long time .
10 I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time !
11 And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments
12 The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time .
13 It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back .
14 " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin .
15 Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't .
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