Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 2 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 3 | I hear from those who have not been imprisoned in the debate for a long time that the electronic media have reported well the exchanges that took place . |
| 4 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 5 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 6 | She held her hand under the flow for a long time but the water grew no warmer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two girls were quiet for a long time after the door closed ; then suddenly , unaccountably , they started to push one another , boisterously mimicking Moran : ‘ God , O God , what did I do to deserve such a crowd ? |
| 9 | A wall that has been damp will often contain moisture for a long time after the cause has been remedied , so it is better to allow the walls to dry out naturally , although anti-damp paint could be used to allow the room to be decorated before the wall has dried out . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 11 | The Government refused at first even to meet him , citing the need not to inflame those holding the Beirut hostages , and did precious little more for a long time after the hostages were freed . |
| 12 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 13 | These positions are then pre-empted for a long time as the incumbents have many years to go before retirement . |
| 14 | The manufacturers of the robot arm have not advertised in the hobby electronics press for a long time and a disadvantage of their interface was that both software and hardware were designed specifically for the BBC computer . |
| 15 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 16 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 19 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 20 | Now , now it would 've been easier for you , the , the part that you missed out which would have brought all that in to play would have been how much do you want to pay , do you wan na pay a , a small amount over a long time or a big amount over a short time and then that would 've brought that into play . |