Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were two posts allocated for social workers , but these had not been filled for a long time . |
| 2 | This has been recognized for a long time . |
| 3 | Mass is celebrated here at midday , the church having been reconsecrated after a long deconsecration period . |
| 4 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 5 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 6 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 7 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 8 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 9 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 10 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 11 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 12 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 13 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 14 | I 'm sure that if he had said something he never have betrayed the pain he had been guarding for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 17 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 18 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 19 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 20 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 21 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 22 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 23 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 24 | The concepts of each civilization , like the soil of its homeland , have been cultivated by a long tradition of directed effort , but in the last resort are not invented but given . |
| 25 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 26 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 27 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 28 | Piano keys made with synthetic resins or polymer fibres eventually become slippery with sweat from the pianist 's fingers after been played for a long time . |
| 29 | Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry . |
| 30 | ‘ These events are occurring now because human rights have been violated for a long time , ’ he said . |