Example sentences of "had not [verb] [prep] 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 | 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 . |
4 | " 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 . |
5 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
6 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
7 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |