Example sentences of "[verb] it for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 2 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 3 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 4 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 9 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 10 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 13 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 14 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 17 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | No one 's touched it for a long , long time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 25 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 26 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |
| 29 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |