Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 2 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 3 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 4 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 5 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 8 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 9 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 15 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 24 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 25 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 26 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 27 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 28 | Residents have campaigned for a long time for a speed restriction and traffic calming in Skerne Park , which has a high accident rate . |
| 29 | Some young people in care have voiced for a long time their preference for residential rather than fostering care ( Page and Clark , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | In calling for a vote on European union , TODAY is speaking up for what most of us have wanted for a long time . |