Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] a long time " in BNC.

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1 I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them
2 Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications .
3 I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street .
4 I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen .
5 Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’
6 They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story .
7 She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed .
8 You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’
9 This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation .
10 We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here .
11 We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache .
12 We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight .
13 Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time !
14 I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time .
15 He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch .
16 Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time .
17 it seems quite a long time
18 It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him .
19 He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb .
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