Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 3 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 4 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 5 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 6 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 7 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 8 | Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last . |
| 9 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 10 | They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over . |
| 11 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 12 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 13 | He 'd fought a long battle against the boys ’ religious indoctrination . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 15 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 16 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 17 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 18 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 19 | The man who says when you need a door opened to save a long walk — ‘ It 's more than my jobsworth , mate ’ . |
| 20 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 21 | I cut down a big tree , and then began to make a long hole in it . |
| 22 | But Llewellyn 's retainers with Twiston-Davies and Tim Forster , plus attractive rides for David Nicholson and Nick Gaselee , make those dark days when the phone never rang seem a long way off . |
| 23 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 24 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 25 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 26 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 27 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 28 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 29 | As a consequence , the last six years of Henry 's reign had witnessed a long and bitter power struggle between the conservatives led by Gardiner and Norfolk , and the evangelicals led by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer , Sir Anthony Denny , and the Seymour uncles of Prince Edward . |
| 30 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |