Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for a long time " in BNC.

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1 Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing .
2 The kind of music she had not heard for a long time .
3 These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate .
4 Lions are strong but can not run for a long time .
5 ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible .
6 One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time .
7 She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time .
8 Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time .
9 Susie did not reply for a long time .
10 it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things .
11 It is extremely light , low cut , very wide fitting — the widest I 've ever found for a long time — and together with an EVA insert into the sole unit , gave me very comfortable walking .
12 We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea .
13 We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it .
14 This served with 28 Squadron under 5 Wing and was later stored for a long time at 15 Air Depot at Snake Valley , adjacent to Swartkop before going to serve with the MEFS at Bloemspruit .
15 She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole .
16 What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents .
17 " 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 .
18 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 .
19 Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’
20 No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these .
21 Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one
22 Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them .
23 Have n't done for a long time .
24 He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee .
25 It 's the first time I 've actually , well cos I have n't sung for a long time .
26 But that wo n't happen for a long time , says Richard Outcalt , a retail-sales consultant in Seattle .
27 I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time .
28 She did n't breathe for a long time .
29 ‘ I strongly suspected for a long time that there were other men .
30 She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit .
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