Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for a long " in BNC.

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1 He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time .
2 Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time .
3 It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … .
4 Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time .
5 It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while !
6 first thing I 've had for a long time is er that .
7 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 .
8 We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by .
9 You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ?
10 I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ?
11 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 .
12 You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time .
16 ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison .
17 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 .
18 This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time .
19 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 .
20 We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim .
21 I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 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 . ’
24 It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’
25 ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time .
26 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 .
27 You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time .
28 We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment .
29 Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly .
30 Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university .
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