Example sentences of "a long time [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 2 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 3 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 4 | I was thinking , for a long time after you left . |
| 5 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 6 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 7 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 8 | take a long time but I mean I know it says got well puppy mess to get over yet . |
| 9 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 10 | Equally personal is Janet Smith 's The World Outside My Window , the first piece she has made since disbanding her company and the first in a long time that she has made to please herself . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’ |
| 12 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 13 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 14 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 15 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 16 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 17 | They will be voted out and it will be a long time before we have a Conservative Government in Britain again . |
| 18 | But the Voice of Reason argued that Preston 's marriage , and his career , were demasted , holed and rudderless a long time before they foundered together on the rock of Carla . |
| 19 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 20 | It was a long time before they spoke . |
| 21 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 22 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 23 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 24 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 25 | ‘ It may be a long time before you get another offer like that ! ’ |
| 26 | As you wander along the ridge , it 's a long time before you lose sight of its neat white contours , and if you take a strong pair of binoculars on your walk , you can keep an eye on how the housemaid is turning your bed down . |
| 27 | ‘ And I think it will be a long time before you grow old , Shelley . ’ |
| 28 | It was a long time before I fell asleep that night ! |
| 29 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 30 | BILLY BREMNER : ( Leeds , Hull , Doncaster and Scotland — 1959-81 ) : ‘ He was a hero at Elland Road a long time before I came into football . |