Example sentences of "[adv] a long [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man . |
| 2 | There was always a long silence and I could see people thinking , ‘ Oh my God , this guy has lost it , big time . ' ’ |
| 3 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 4 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 5 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 6 | and the problem of access to the flats , and sometimes the necessity to walk quite a long way before you can get out onto the street , which would be a problem for young mothers with , with , with small children , as equally it would be a problem for elderly people or disabled people . |
| 7 | And mine matey and bess be about me that was quite a long exclamation but it was something surprise them terribly , Oh bess be about me , just sort of , Oh God come to me help , sort of thing . |
| 8 | There was quite a long silence before she said , ‘ May I tell you a story ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 10 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 11 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |
| 12 | Quite a long walk if you 're coming over there . |
| 13 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 14 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |