Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 2 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 3 | ( iv ) Certain electoral practices , some of them with a long and disreputable history , are forbidden . |
| 4 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 5 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't done any of them for a long time . |
| 7 | I have n't had one of them for a long time . |
| 8 | Could do with one of them for a long time , could n't I ? |
| 9 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 10 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |
| 11 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 12 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 13 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 14 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |