Example sentences of "it [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 32 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 33 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 34 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 35 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 36 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 37 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 38 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 39 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 40 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 41 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 44 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 45 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 46 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 47 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 48 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 49 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 50 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 51 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 54 | 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 ? |
| 55 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 58 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 59 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 60 | Born , they held it like a long skinned thing and for a moment she stared at it hanging in the air not knowing if it was alive or dead , good or bad , not believing it was over . |