Example sentences of "[verb] for a long time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 32 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 33 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 34 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 35 | But I discard that idea , for the water is too shallow over the sand and once a fish is hooked the fishing would be finished for a long time while the rest of the shoal got over the scare . |
| 36 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 37 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 38 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 39 | These can be kept for a long time and are likely to breed . |
| 40 | It has to be cooked for a long time because of its size , but it will still be pink in the middle and have a succulence to it . |
| 41 | He was screaming for a long time before he fell , and we could hear that he was running as he screamed . |
| 42 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 43 | ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men . |
| 44 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 45 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |