Example sentences of "it for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 33 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 34 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 35 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 36 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 37 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 38 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 39 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 ? |
| 42 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 45 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 46 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 47 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 48 | World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time . |
| 49 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 50 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 51 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 52 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 53 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 54 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 55 | When he took the stage to collect the award ( winning it for the second time following two years of Vivienne Westwood ) , Ozbek did n't stand a chance . |
| 56 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 57 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 58 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 59 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 60 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |