Example sentences of "it for a long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
2 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
3 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
4 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
5 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |