Example sentences of "[prep] it for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 4 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 5 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 6 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 7 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 8 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 9 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 10 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 11 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 12 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 13 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 14 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 15 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 16 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 17 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 18 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 19 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 20 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 21 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 22 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 23 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 24 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 25 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 26 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 27 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 28 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 29 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |