Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] for a long " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
3 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
4 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
5 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
6 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
7 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
9 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
10 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
11 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
12 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
13 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
14 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
15 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
16 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
17 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
18 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |