Example sentences of "[det] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 4 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 5 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 6 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 7 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 8 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 9 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
| 10 | Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious . |
| 11 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 12 | They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 15 | They lay like that for a long time . |
| 16 | He sat like that for a long time . |
| 17 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 21 | All we can say is that assurances were given , and that for a short time they were accepted as having been given in good faith ; but they were not honoured . |
| 22 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 23 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 24 | The significance was not that a testator 's intentions were allowed to play more freely , but that for the first time the law was dealing with an open rather than a closed system , a system that offered unlimited possibilities for expansion . |
| 25 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 26 | What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism . |
| 27 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 28 | They believe it will mean that for the first time in El Salvador 's history , there will be genuine political freedom . |
| 29 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 30 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |