Example sentences of "a long time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In bed that night , Evelyn and Rose talked in whispers for a long time after they were sure that everyone else was asleep . |
| 2 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was thinking , for a long time after you left . |
| 6 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 7 | Hard disks last a long time but they do n't last for ever . |
| 8 | ‘ Developing a single European currency will take a long time but it will make the most significant contribution to European , and therefore world , financial stability . |
| 9 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 10 | take a long time but I mean I know it says got well puppy mess to get over yet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 13 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 18 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 23 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 24 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
| 25 | The discipline of information science , which attempts to study all the ways in which human beings communicate information with each other and the many facilities which make it easier to perform , is in its earliest formative years , and it will be a long time before we can be sure either that the science of information is a true discipline or that it can deliver its present optimistic promises . |
| 26 | " It 's going to be a long time before we get another chance , though , is n't it though ? " |
| 27 | They will be voted out and it will be a long time before we have a Conservative Government in Britain again . |
| 28 | But I know it is sad that all our clubs are out of Europe now and it will probably be a long time before we can hope to dominate abroad as we once did . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |