Example sentences of "it for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The org the organist used to carry it for a long way . |
| 2 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 3 | The water for drinking they used to collect from the gutters and erm it used to go into big barrels and then they used to boil it for a long while . |
| 4 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 5 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 6 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 7 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 8 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 9 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 10 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 11 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 12 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 13 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 14 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 15 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 16 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 17 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 18 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 19 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 20 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 21 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 22 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 23 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 24 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 25 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 26 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 27 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 28 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 29 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 30 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |