Example sentences of "the [noun] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also our intention — this differs from what has been the case for a long time — that they will be fully manned units . |
| 2 | Then suddenly he sees Piquet go into a spin and does n't get back into the field for a long time . |
| 3 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 4 | They played rummy with Patsy in the kitchen for a long time because Mother and Father went across the road to Dr and Mrs Johnson 's house . |
| 5 | The snag is , scientists do not yet know whether patients taking the drug for a long time are better off with a little testosterone , or none . |
| 6 | ‘ I really have n't had a chance to press my claims and I sincerely believe I am pushing uphill to get back into the side for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 8 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 9 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 10 | There was terror in the neighbourhood for a long time afterwards . |
| 11 | I gaze at the entry for a long time , tom between a longing to hear his voice again and the terror of becoming in thrall to even his disembodied form . |
| 12 | and manager Smith plans to be at the Manor for a long time too … he 's brushed away speculation about going to Stoke … he 's happy at Oxford … well he will be when they start winning |
| 13 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 14 | Scientific work into the effects of vitamin E deficiency revealed that , in extreme cases , male animals deprived of the vitamin for a long period suffered irreparable damage to their testes . |
| 15 | When she left him , he stood at the window for a long time , looking out over the newly-awakened countryside . |
| 16 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 17 | She was n't in the mood for a long day 's screwing . |
| 18 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 19 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 20 | He closed the door behind him , and Shelley stood in the hall for a long time , one hand up to her untidy hair where Miguel had ruffled it . |
| 21 | His hair was grey , and his face lined and brown as if he had been in the sun for a long time . |
| 22 | and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it |
| 23 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 24 | A PHILLIP Glass-style loop is the basis for a long , trancey , free-flowing , ambient workout , a floating journey around the cosmos cut with geometrically perfect shapes of sound . |
| 25 | These warnings assumed even greater importance because Opren stayed around in the body for a long time . |
| 26 | Therefore , a thin section remaining in the beam for a long time may show a decrease in luminescence intensity as ionic-bombardment and thermal diffusion take place . |
| 27 | Dorian looked at the picture for a long time . |
| 28 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 29 | Freud thought that the need for a long period of education for young men and women in the ‘ civilized ’ sections of modern societies was linked with the development of neurotic illness because of the deferment of sexual gratification necessary while education took place . |
| 30 | The requirements of the crusade and the tensions of being brought to the brink of battle both pointed to the need for a long , rather than a short truce . |