Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | have hunted , slain and carried away deer , hares , coneys , pheasants and partridges … threatening the King 's officers in life and limb , so that they … for a long while have not dared openly to pass and do their business there . |
| 2 | you ai n't blushed like that for a long while have you ? , yeah , that will be a holiday , watch your camp bed do n't fold up love |
| 3 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 4 | Not for a long time had Vi felt so uncomfortable . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 7 | It had jeopardized the government coalition , because the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( FKgP ) for a long time had been unwilling to make concessions which compromised the commitment in its electoral programme to full restitution [ see p. 37790 ; 37975 ] . |
| 8 | I think that 's been on , on the cards for a long time has n't it ? |
| 9 | The best idea in shareware for a long time has been the production of colouring books for younger children . |
| 10 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 11 | However , it is also evident that much greater co-operation is required between western European countries , which for a long time have been concerned about the environment , and the countries of eastern and central Europe . |
| 12 | AT ABBEVILLE airfield , l'Aero Club de la Somme have for a long time have shown off Dassault Ouragon No 215 . |
| 13 | War on Want are er for a long time have been the only probably the only erm that put their neck on the block as far as social and environmental aspects of the party go . |
| 14 | You never watched Lady And The Tramp for a long time have you ? |
| 15 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 16 | No , sure , have n't been for a long time have you ? |
| 17 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 18 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 19 | We have n't done this one for a long time have we ? |
| 20 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 21 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 22 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 23 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 24 | Mr Morris added : ‘ We have pressed the Government for a long time to have a look at the hill farming situation . |
| 25 | It said that its study had not discovered any conclusive evidence on the damage done to humans by low-level exposure , but it stated that the lack of information and knowledge of the effects of exposure to low doses of the chemicals over a long period had led the working party to adopt the precautionary principle that absence of evidence was not evidence of absence . |
| 26 | In the short term , nitrogenous fertilizers , by increasing grasses and clovers , can result in an increase in the earthworm population , but continuous use of superphosphate or Nitro-chalk over a long period has been shown , in trials at Rothamstead , to reduce numbers in proportion to the amount of nitrogen applied . |
| 27 | Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support . |