Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a hell of a long time in the what 's it ? |
| 2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 3 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 4 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 5 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 6 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 7 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 8 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 9 | A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 . |
| 10 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 11 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 12 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |