Example sentences of "be [adj] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 32 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |
| 33 | The two girls were quiet for a long time after the door closed ; then suddenly , unaccountably , they started to push one another , boisterously mimicking Moran : ‘ God , O God , what did I do to deserve such a crowd ? |
| 34 | Walking back to the hotel , Rozanov and I were silent for a long time . |
| 35 | They were silent for a long time . |
| 36 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 37 | It must be a problem if people sort of leave their children in nurseries all the time cos it 's nice for a short time but for a long long time they 're just not yours are they any more ? |
| 38 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 39 | The time out lasts only until the child has stopped the undesirable behaviour and has been quiet for a short time . |
| 40 | In terms of the ‘ demographic transition ’ it is a great puzzle to explain why the response to them was so late in a relatively literate , urbanized , and industrialized society where returns from children do not seem to have been plausible for a long time ( R. M. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 41 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 42 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 43 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 44 | One day I shall lie beside that grave and the stone will say ‘ Angharad ’ and I shall have been dead for a long time . |
| 45 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 46 | He was ill for a long time . |
| 47 | She fell on her head and was unconscious for a long time . |
| 48 | Evelyn was silent for a long time afterwards . |
| 49 | He was silent for a long time . |
| 50 | Creggan was silent for a long time . |
| 51 | Campbell put his face in his hands , and was silent for a long time . |
| 52 | Ipuky sighed , flexing his hands as they lay at the edge of the table , and was silent for a long time . |
| 53 | He was silent for a long time , then he blew out a long stream of smoke and turned his head towards her . |