Example sentences of "together for a long time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 've always been really good friends but had n't worked together for a long time .
2 They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer :
3 CHARLES and Diana will be together for a long time to come .
4 Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home .
5 We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time .
6 On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that .
7 Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much .
8 The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’
9 They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too .
10 She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’
11 They stood clasped together for a long time , then he bent his head and kissed her , softly at first , then with such increasing passion that she could feel his heart beating like a drum .
12 ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’
13 And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments
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