Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 32 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 33 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 34 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 35 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 36 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 37 | Basilican churches continued to be built for a long time but many variations of form developed , with one dominant theme : a dome , or domes over an open space below . |
| 38 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 39 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 40 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 41 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 42 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 43 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 44 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 45 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 46 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 47 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 48 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 49 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 50 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 51 | Corners can be cut on flowers and remember , the flowers at the reception are going to be seen for a longer time than those in the church . |
| 52 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 53 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 54 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 56 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 57 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |
| 59 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 60 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |