Example sentences of "[verb] for a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 2 | There is one important difference : the Prime Minister and his Cabinet can embark boldly upon their way forward , with electoral considerations banished for a long time to come . |
| 3 | The stockings on Christmas morning are always full of useful things ( Clarissa 's includes Pond 's Cold Cream and tights ) , then after church the family goes for a long walk to work up a hearty appetite for dinner . |
| 4 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 5 | Historians will be occupied for a long time to come in determining the exact balance and interaction of forces — including , to mention only the more obvious , the economic disaster of the Second World War , the rise of America , and the development of nationalism — which contributed to Britain 's imperial demise . |
| 6 | Memories of the last will linger for a long time to come . |
| 7 | Given that many of these theories require extremely detailed specifications of grammar rules and lexical entries this has for a long time formed an obstacle to the production of general systems . |
| 8 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ We are confident we will still be operating for a long time to come . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 11 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 12 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 13 | Just sit down and and sit still for a minute because you 'll be standing for a long time playing the recorder as well , if you want if you want to go to the toilet just take yourself all right . |
| 14 | The risk of a very old person falling and being left for a long period lying on the floor is a sufficient anxiety to encourage some families to opt for residential care for their elderly family member , when with enough support it might not be necessary ( Challis and Davies , 1985 , p. 571 ) . |
| 15 | Despite joining the ILP in 1907 , he continued for a long time to write leaders for Liberal journals . |
| 16 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 17 | The local children used to play in the cutting and had for a long time fancied the hut as a den or HQ for their games , but the hut was always locked by a large padlock securing a hasp that was red with rust but still secured the door . |
| 18 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 19 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 20 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 21 | It seems doubtful that any strong moral reaction can now set in although some backlash is already evident ; a dissident minority and a good many of the elderly will continue for a long time to object to what they see as moral decay . |
| 22 | The small size of the private-rented sector and the difficulties which council house tenants face in moving between local authority areas have for a long time constituted major barriers to long distance migration by lower-income workers ( Robertson , 1979 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1981 ; OPCS , 1983 ; Hamnett , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 24 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 25 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 26 | Libraries and librarians have for a long time sought to play a role in the educational development of young children in the formative and primary years , particularly in the simple stimulation of the reading habit . |
| 27 | AT ABBEVILLE airfield , l'Aero Club de la Somme have for a long time have shown off Dassault Ouragon No 215 . |
| 28 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 29 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 30 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |