Example sentences of "[pers pn] have for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Can I have for a long time . |
2 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
3 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
4 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
5 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
6 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
7 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
8 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
9 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
10 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
11 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
12 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
13 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
14 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
15 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |