Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 3 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 4 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 5 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |