Example sentences of "i [vb base] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
2 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
3 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
4 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
5 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
6 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
7 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
8 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
9 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
10 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
11 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
12 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |