Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 2 | The large increase in coastal shipping after 1760 was built on a transport facility which had already proved itself over a long period among the most valuable of the country 's natural assets . |
| 3 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 4 | Joe Reynolds and Amy Winship might just find themselves with a long weekend ! ’ |
| 5 | sha n't want 'em for a long while |
| 6 | a cast iron logical argument you could you could then even phase it over a longer period |
| 7 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 8 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 11 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 12 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 13 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 15 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 16 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 17 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 18 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 19 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 20 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 21 | I wo n't marry anyone for a long time . |
| 22 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 23 | It does n't hit you for a long time what you have achieved . |
| 24 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 25 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |