Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] a long " 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 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 14 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 15 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 16 | erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time . |
| 17 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 18 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
| 19 | A rest , a quick conflab and we decide to do another twenty miles and reach our tent before we stop for a long rest . |
| 20 | We watch for a long time , Tony catching the show on camera , then notice that the temperature has plummeted with the clearing of the sky and turn in . |
| 21 | A song that we hear as a long light squeal . |
| 22 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 23 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 24 | See what they do with a long pink flannel ? |
| 25 | Officials from the leading Ulster team have voiced their opinion in the past that there should be some of form seeding for the preliminary round , and now it has raised its head again as they prepare for a long trip south on November 6 . |
| 26 | Especially when they come from a long way , away . |