Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 4 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 5 | I have n't seen that for a long time |
| 6 | At night we were visited by entrepreneurs in sarongs and Muslim black felt " peci " hats , who knocked so quietly that for a long time we thought they were merely underpowered geckos . |
| 7 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 8 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 9 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
| 10 | Chesarynth concentrated on the maths of it so hard that for a long time she ignored the awareness tugging at her subconscious . |
| 11 | She had not done that for a long time . |
| 12 | They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one . |
| 13 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 14 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 15 | They lay like that for a long time . |
| 16 | He sat like that for a long time . |
| 17 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , she 's , she 's had , she 's had one of those and I have n't seen that for a long time . |
| 19 | Are n't you playing the piano ? shall we get that book that you have , it 's yellow I think it 's down there , we have n't done that for a long time have we , we can do that while daddy and Tim are playing |
| 20 | She 'll do that for a long time , I bet . |
| 21 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 22 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 23 | Again , we have paid lip-service to this for a long time , but it has not been an easy ideal to achieve . |
| 24 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 25 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 26 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 27 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 28 | They stayed together like this for a long time . |
| 29 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 30 | They remained like this for a long time . |