Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 61 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 62 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 63 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 64 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 65 | The best one he 's made in a long time , I 'd say . |
| 66 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 67 | it does n't matter because all of them are as it happens fairly er new and indeed as Kevin says quite correctly , dry because they have n't been used for a long time . |
| 68 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 69 | Dust layered the bottom of the chamber pot ; it had not been used for a long time and was probably meant for show . |
| 70 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 71 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 72 | It 's the first time I 've actually , well cos I have n't sung for a long time . |
| 73 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 74 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 75 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 76 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 77 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 78 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 79 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 80 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 81 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 82 | The men talked for a long time . |
| 83 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 84 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 85 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 86 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 87 | I think it 's been closed for a long time actually . |
| 88 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 89 | ‘ This is one of the best evenings I 've had in a long time , ’ Sam said , sipping his coffee . |
| 90 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |