Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It seems to be all beer , ’ he said after reading the menu for a long time . |
| 32 | In drawing comparisons between the state of credit marketing in the US and her , I am mindful that I have been in the UK for a long time and of that famous Bacon quote , ‘ Time is the greatest innovator ’ . |
| 33 | Fagin took what Sikes gave him , then stared at the robber for a long time without speaking . |
| 34 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 35 | If the bones remain on the surface of the ground for a long time , weathering may occur resulting in splitting and cracking of the bone and incipient flaking . |
| 36 | ‘ I have lived in the district for a long time and regard myself as a ‘ local ’ . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 38 | I hear from those who have not been imprisoned in the debate for a long time that the electronic media have reported well the exchanges that took place . |
| 39 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 40 | He stood there silent beside the bench for a long time fondling with a wondering hand the unknown contours of his own young head in the stone , thinking himself strangely wonderful suddenly , and a terrible responsibility . |
| 41 | You never watched Lady And The Tramp for a long time have you ? |
| 42 | I would like to acknowledge Norman 's excellence because the Garrick was sort of stuck in the past for a long time box set imitation stuff and Norman has sort of revitalized it made it extremely professional and it really did make a difference to the performances and I 'd like |
| 43 | Mr Morris added : ‘ We have pressed the Government for a long time to have a look at the hill farming situation . |
| 44 | She held her hand under the flow for a long time but the water grew no warmer . |
| 45 | Little knots of people still talked earnestly in the street outside the church for a long time afterwards . |
| 46 | there are many people and probably a few of you here tonight , who have been members of the Church for a long time . |
| 47 | He would n't want to flee the nest for a long time yet . |
| 48 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 49 | So she 'd have to face the prospect of me being on the dole for a long time . |
| 50 | Unable to return to his seat , too scared even to hide in the toilets , he had hovered in the shadows by the door for a long time until he spotted Sweetheart climbing from a car parked on the other side of the street . |
| 51 | The woman waited in front of the door for a long time . |
| 52 | ‘ The bridge has been completely rebuilt with greenheart hardwood and should last the railway for a long time . ’ |
| 53 | Did you work in the pits for a long time ? |
| 54 | Things did not improve in the county for a long time to come . |
| 55 | May he escape the bears for a long time yet . |
| 56 | She lay on the bank for a long time waiting patiently until she spotted a whopper . |
| 57 | When I was alone , I thought about the situation for a long time . |
| 58 | Australia has been isolated from the rest of the world for a long time and its flora and fauna are unique having evolved on their own without competition from species elsewhere . |
| 59 | The people of Zurich have been playing host to the world for a long time , and you reap the benefit of matured experience . |
| 60 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |