Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 4 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 5 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 6 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 7 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 8 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 10 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 13 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 14 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 15 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 16 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 17 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 18 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 19 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 20 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , if a tank bottom with some peat and gravel or sand is provided it will establish well , but will take quite a long time . |
| 23 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 24 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 25 | It 's gon na take quite a long time . |
| 26 | So it can take quite a long time to process applications to that point . |
| 27 | it seems quite a long time |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 30 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |