Example sentences of "[pers pn] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 2 | If you do n't know them it 's going to take you a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 5 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 6 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 7 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 8 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 9 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 10 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't forget who you 're talking to here — I 've known you a long time , remember ? |
| 12 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 13 | Well Charlotte it 's not easy , it 's gon na take you a long time , but then so |
| 14 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 15 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 16 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 17 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 18 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 19 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 20 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 21 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 22 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 23 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 24 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 26 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 27 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 28 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 29 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 30 | It took me a long time to find . |