Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for [art] [adj] time " 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 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 6 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 7 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 8 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 10 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 11 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 12 | Even more interestingly , I understand that even some of Mrs Thatcher 's friends share this opinion and are proposing — some of them for the first time in their lives — not to vote for the Tories . |
| 13 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 14 | According to forecasts no less than 2 million people will visit Seville in the six months of Expo , many of them for the first time . |
| 15 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 16 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ WHIT 'S yer name hen ? ’ the drunk and dishevelled man on the train asked the woman opposite him for the fourth time in a very loud voice . |
| 19 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 20 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 21 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of people looked for you for a long time . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |
| 25 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 28 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
| 29 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
| 30 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |