Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 3 | Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband . |
| 4 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 5 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 6 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 7 | ‘ Why do n't you just get out of this car and come inside for a long cool drink and a long cool swim and admit defeat ? ’ |
| 8 | TAKE OFF FOR A LONG WEEKEND WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF CITROËN |