Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
6 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
7 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
10 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
11 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
12 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
13 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
16 | it seems quite a long time |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |