Example sentences of "want [to-vb] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they want to go for a longer period , a key worker would go out with them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She 's wanted to go for a long time , ’ said Anne , nodding . |
| 3 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |