Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 32 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 33 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 34 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 35 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 36 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 37 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 38 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 39 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 40 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 41 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 42 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 43 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 44 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 45 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 46 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 47 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 48 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 49 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 50 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 51 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
| 52 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 53 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 54 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 55 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 56 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 57 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 58 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 59 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 60 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |