Example sentences of "[prep] it for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 2 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 3 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 6 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 7 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 8 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 9 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 10 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 11 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 14 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 17 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 18 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 21 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 22 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 23 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 24 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 25 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 28 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 29 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 30 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |