Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 4 | The increase had been won only after a long struggle . |
| 5 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 6 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 7 | I I simply , I simply want er er a direct message from from the programme which is going on Chairman incidentally I I note that Nottinghamshire County Council erm has found a a and the Labour group there has found it necessary to tackle just the same problems erm in elderly persons homes and that I understand that they have a a closure list of seven , now presumably that has been drawn up from a long list of a lot more than seven , say fourteen or fifteen from which they 've made their final choice . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 9 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 10 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 11 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 12 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 13 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 14 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 15 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 16 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 17 | Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period , it might have seemed more logical . |
| 18 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 19 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 20 | They had been imprisoned there by a long dead ruler , Llud . |