Example sentences of "i [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 2 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 3 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 4 | " I know a long time . |
| 5 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 6 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 7 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 8 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 9 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 10 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 11 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 13 | I queued a long time for that loaf . |
| 14 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 15 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 16 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |
| 17 | I spend a long time with the Emergency Bed Service on the neighbour 's phone . |
| 18 | No , I mean I , cos I , you know I , i I spend a long time coarse fishing so I understand actual fishing for pleasure as opposed |
| 19 | ‘ Another thing which caused me to spend a long time on the story was that prostitution is a black and whit story , but the business side of photography usually wants colour . |