Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 2 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 3 | Aggie 's friend knows about him , but , as he said , they ca n't pin anything on to him ; they 've been tryin' for a long time . |
| 4 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 5 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 6 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 7 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 8 | Examinations with a scanning electron microscope show that cowpeas that have been stored for a long time readily lose protein when soaked , whereas samples stored without soaking do not lose protein . |
| 9 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 10 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 12 | Other diuretics have been known for a long time , especially arsenical compounds of mercury . |
| 13 | These are called reaves and , while they have been known for a long time , their age , extent and probable purpose have only recently been recognised . |
| 14 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 15 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 16 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |