Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
2 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
3 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
4 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
5 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
6 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
7 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
8 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
9 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
10 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
11 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
12 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
13 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
14 | We 've moved on a long way from the original version . ’ |
15 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
16 | ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee . |
17 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
18 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
19 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
20 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
21 | ‘ It was as hard as I 've practised in a long time , ’ said the Ryder Cup player . |
22 | Patients who 've complained about the long wait have been sent letters of apology . |
23 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
24 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
25 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
26 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
27 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
28 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
29 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
30 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |