Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] for [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
2 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time , ’ he told the ever-comforting Jones , ‘ and shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
3 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
4 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
5 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
6 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
7 | It was a leafy place ; professional people , merchants , senior civil servants had lived around here for a long time . |
8 | While people down south are still lying out in the sun and enjoying their holidays , up here we have to start planning well ahead for the long winter to come . |
9 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |
10 | Eachuinn Odhar stood absolutely still for a long , long breath . |
11 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
12 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |