Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world-shakers . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 4 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |
| 5 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ We have n't done that in a long time . ’ |
| 8 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 9 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 10 | I can not do that with a long barrelled weapon . |
| 11 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 12 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 13 | In this way , the mother provides her baby with more food over the period of its development than she would be able to pack into a single egg , and what is more , she can do this over a long period instead of being compelled to produce it all at one moment . |
| 14 | Have n't had that for a long while |
| 15 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 17 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 18 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 19 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 21 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 22 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 23 | I do this for a long time . |
| 24 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 25 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 26 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | But I did n't learn that until a long time after . |