Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 2 | We do n't say nothing for a long time . |
| 3 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 4 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 5 | Nothing for a long time like the five hundred . |
| 6 | Big companies have the cash to sustain them through the long vicissitudes of permit-winning . |
| 7 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 8 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 9 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 11 | She would not argue , she would not say anything , she would not look at me for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 13 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 14 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
| 15 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
| 16 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 17 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 18 | Miss Hawthorne looked at me for a long moment . |
| 19 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 20 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 21 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 22 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 23 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 25 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 26 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 27 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 30 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |