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 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
48 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
49 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
50 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
51 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
52 | 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 . |