Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 2 | The interior cooling recorded by contraction at the surface must have persisted over a long period . |
| 3 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 4 | Yet the question remains as to what Baldwin thought he might have attempted in a long night of ‘ reasoning together ’ . |
| 5 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 6 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 7 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 8 | He claimed there should be no erosion of traditional fishing areas , and stressed that each application would have to go through a long process before being granted . |
| 9 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |