Example sentences of "[prep] it for [art] long time " in BNC.

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1 Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time .
2 He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time .
3 It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time .
4 No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ?
5 But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really
6 He has n't been in it for a long time .
7 We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody .
8 ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time .
9 We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman .
10 Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time .
11 Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company
12 We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time .
13 I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it .
14 But he does n't do anything about it for a long time .
15 She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time .
16 Well think about it for a long time
17 She stared down at it for a long time .
18 I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands .
19 Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out .
20 Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’
21 She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry .
22 She looked at it for a long time .
23 I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots .
24 She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine .
25 She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time .
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