Example sentences of "this for [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 2 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 3 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 4 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 5 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 6 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 8 | They stayed together like this for a long time . |
| 9 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 10 | They remained like this for a long time . |
| 11 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 12 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 13 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 14 | Stars will remain stable like this for a long time , with heat from the nuclear reactions balancing the gravitational attraction . |
| 15 | I do this for a long time . |
| 16 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 17 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 18 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ We have wanted something like this for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't think he will be able to , like this for a long time . |
| 21 | she obviously did n't know this for a long time and then one day I said to her , well , it was lovely meal and all that but I do think your mark-up on the wine is scandalous ! |