Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a long time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 2 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 3 | ‘ From what you 've told me , I do n't think we 'll see her for a long time unless your Mr Wyatt finds them , and while he thinks you are Dana he wo n't be looking very hard , will he ? ’ |
| 4 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 7 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |