Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You have been here a long time , masters . |
| 32 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
| 33 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |
| 34 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 35 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 36 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 37 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 38 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 39 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 40 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 41 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 42 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 43 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 44 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |
| 45 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |