Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 32 | ‘ I 'd like to know how much elation black leadership feels for this occasion , if any , of murder by mob , murder by trial , murder by jury , ’ Reed stated , his voice rising for the only time . |
| 33 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 34 | The two silent watchers dropped to the ground and stayed there without moving for a long time . |
| 35 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 36 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 37 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 38 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 39 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |
| 40 | Yes , but I mean erm excuse me erm there are a lot of people who have been saying for a long time , the council are dragging their heels and they 're not doing anything . |
| 41 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 42 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 43 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 44 | The other thing we do sort of every now and then , and next time will be Easter , we actually have some people in costume who actually reoccupy the house over Waster weekend in this case as as the household of William and they 've been coming for a long time now and they 've got set into the set into their roles quite well . |
| 45 | José Napoleón Duarte , 64 , President of El Salvador in 1980-1982 and 1984-1989 , died on Feb. 23 after suffering for a long time from cancer . |
| 46 | ‘ People see Romania and Albania in the media all the time now but Poland has been suffering for a long time and people are still very much in need of our help , ’ she said . |
| 47 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 48 | I myself would seemingly represent the environmental lobby , but there have been others , many ex-members of Harwell , who have been campaigning for a long time now , many years , to get these reactors shut down , and it has just been a very long slog , and eventually the truth has had to come to light to shut these reactors down . |
| 49 | Hambro Countrywide 's shares soared 7p to 36p on Hill 's bullish comments , boosting its market value by nearly 25% , as the stock market savoured the first piece of good news about housing for a long time . |
| 50 | Just sit down and and sit still for a minute because you 'll be standing for a long time playing the recorder as well , if you want if you want to go to the toilet just take yourself all right . |
| 51 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 52 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 53 | ‘ You were talking for a long time , ’ she said . |
| 54 | But arguing for the additional time and money and confronting the critics transformed a potential failure into a ringing success . |
| 55 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 56 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 57 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 58 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 59 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 60 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |