Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 3 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 4 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 5 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 7 | Some cars have a petrol gauge that stays on full for a long time . |
| 8 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 9 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 10 | They lay like that for a long time . |
| 11 | you ai n't blushed like that for a long while have you ? , yeah , that will be a holiday , watch your camp bed do n't fold up love |
| 12 | Check for level with a long board and builder 's level |
| 13 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 14 | They remained like this for a long time . |
| 15 | They stayed like that for a long moment and then he said , ‘ Light the candle . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
| 19 | He sat like that for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |