Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 2 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 5 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 6 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 7 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 8 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |