Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | a cast iron logical argument you could you could then even phase it over a longer period |
| 2 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 3 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 4 | Everybody 's got ta do it in the long run . |
| 5 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 6 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 7 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ You said that if you drop a clock into a black hole , and you watch it from a long way off , the hands appear to go round slower the closer it gets to the hole . |
| 11 | If somebody takes a Covermaster plan out at twenty five , we expect them to be paying it for a long time , if he takes it out at fifty five , we expect him to pay less . |
| 12 | Maeve would be seeing to the barns , ensuring stock was slaughtered , the meat dried , salted and hung high in the kitchen to smoke , preserving it for the long winter months . |
| 13 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 14 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 15 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 16 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 17 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 18 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 19 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 20 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 21 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 22 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 23 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 24 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 25 | No one 's touched it for a long , long time . |
| 26 | well you 've got to snip it first , have n't you , you 've got to fucking snip it with the long hairs first , the old cut throat . |
| 27 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 28 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 29 | So what I was wondering was er the scheme is in it 's infancy this and I 'm all in the favour of the decentralising in principle , but I think we ought to perhaps look at it a bit closer , and I would suggest that we have an up-to-date report at the next meeting of this committee so we can compare it over a longer term so , as that we might then reflect on a if we 're doing the right thing or not . |
| 30 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |