Example sentences of "for [art] long time [pron] [be] " in BNC.

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1 And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing .
2 But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ?
3 For a long time everyone was silent .
4 But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway
5 For a long time he was obsessed by the image of them in bed together .
6 Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth .
7 For a long time there were few specialized tradesmen : most farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs , until the spread of cheaply manufactured iron began to displace wood , and more sophisticated craftsmanship was called for .
8 For a long time there was no sound inside , then the door opened .
9 For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland .
10 It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so .
11 A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment .
12 For a long time there was silence .
13 It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one .
14 For a long time it was known as Benjamins Mill , a name occasionally used today .
15 For a long time it was felt that having kiddies was the answer to a woman 's complete fulfilment .
16 For a long time it was thought that this Gospel was written by Matthew the Apostle .
17 For a long time it was assumed by archaeologists that here , too , the purpose was religious .
18 For a long time it was felt that Agrippa was the builder , and later that his portico had been reerected in the later building .
19 With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid .
20 For a long time I was feeling really lonely and wondering what they were doing , ’ she said .
21 With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly .
22 For a long time I was not exactly sure what I wanted from Project 81 .
23 For a long time I was afraid that he had survived the raids of the Khabiris on our last outposts in the north ; but an infantry captain who had known him managed to make his way back to the Southern Capital and contacted my steward .
24 With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly .
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