Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 3 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 4 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 5 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 6 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 8 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 9 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 10 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 11 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 12 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 13 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 14 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of people looked for you for a long time . |
| 16 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 17 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 18 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
| 20 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
| 21 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 22 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |
| 23 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 24 | Never get bored with the fact that you 've been with someone for a long time , it 's a good thing , not a bad thing . |
| 25 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ It is something that tends to live with you for a long time but at least we now have the chance to put the record straight and show that we , too , can play a bit . |
| 27 | My brother was with her for a long while . |
| 28 | It was about time she stopped feeling sorry for herself , the hurt and pain of losing mam would be with her for a long time , but Hari knew she could not let her grief incapacitate her , if she did not mend and make shoes she did not eat . |
| 29 | His eyes , glittering with rage , bored into hers for one deadly moment ; then he was out of the office before she could move , and minutes later the showroom door closed with a precision she knew would remain with her for a long time . |
| 30 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |