Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] a long " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
2 | ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
5 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
6 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
7 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
8 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
11 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
12 | She looked at them for a long time . |
13 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |