Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] for a long " in BNC.
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1 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
2 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
3 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
4 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
5 | It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking . |
6 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |
7 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
8 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
9 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
10 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
11 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
12 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
13 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
14 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
15 | Have n't done for a long time . |
16 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
17 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
18 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
19 | It 's the first time I 've actually , well cos I have n't sung for a long time . |