Example sentences of "[verb] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 61 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 62 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 63 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
| 64 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 65 | The clothes had not been disturbed for a long time and were as thick and tangled as jungle foliage . |
| 66 | I 've been pushing for a long time but erm down here ? |
| 67 | 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 . |
| 68 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 69 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 70 | ‘ Afterwards — she would not look at me or speak for a long time . |
| 71 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 72 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 73 | Basilican churches continued to be built for a long time but many variations of form developed , with one dominant theme : a dome , or domes over an open space below . |
| 74 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 75 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 76 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 77 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 78 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 79 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 80 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 81 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 82 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 83 | 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 . |
| 84 | Best editor seen for a long time . |
| 85 | 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 . |
| 86 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 87 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 88 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 89 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 90 | He added : ‘ We are confident we will still be operating for a long time to come . |