Example sentences of "[verb] for a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 2 | In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 5 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 6 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 7 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 8 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 9 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is erm the orange disk was flashing for a long while before the buzzer |
| 10 | At the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies in Chicago , delegates asked for a longer cylinder with a section specifically set aside for an announcement , but this did not come about . |
| 11 | Exposed for a long time to moist , saturated , air timber might settle down to a moisture content of 22 per cent or 23 per cent . |
| 12 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The view that aggression is an integral part of human nature has been strongly argued for a long time by exceptionally articulate and persuasive individuals . |
| 15 | I 've been saving for a long time with Alma |
| 16 | This is especially valuable where a job has been done for a long time by the same person . |
| 17 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |
| 18 | They also may not be prepared for a long walk to a phone . |
| 19 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 20 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 23 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 24 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 25 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 26 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 27 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 28 | Going for a long walk in the country on a Sunday afternoon when you 've got a lot of marking still to do , or having an affair with a colleague — they could go either way . |
| 29 | Those and many other pressures may distract them from remaining for a long period in the Territorial Army . |
| 30 | Also in the crypt is the Duomo treasury , a pay-to-enter collection that is closed for a long period at lunch . |