Example sentences of "[prep] this for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 2 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 4 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 5 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 6 | They stayed together like this for a long time . |
| 7 | They remained like this for a long time . |
| 8 | Stars will remain stable like this for a long time , with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction . |
| 9 | ‘ We have wanted something like this for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't think he will be able to , like this for a long time . |
| 11 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 12 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 13 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 14 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |