Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] for [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
2 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
3 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
4 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
5 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
6 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |