Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 2 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 3 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 4 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 5 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 6 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 7 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ You said that if you drop a clock into a black hole , and you watch it from a long way off , the hands appear to go round slower the closer it gets to the hole . |
| 9 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 10 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 11 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 12 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 13 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 14 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 15 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 16 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 17 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 18 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 19 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 20 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 21 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 22 | well you 've got to snip it first , have n't you , you 've got to fucking snip it with the long hairs first , the old cut throat . |
| 23 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 24 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 25 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 26 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 27 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 28 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 29 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 30 | But you 'd regret it in the long run , I think , would n't you ? |