Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I mean a long time ! ’ |
| 2 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 3 | It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done . |
| 4 | " I know a long time . |
| 5 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 6 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 7 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 8 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 9 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 10 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 11 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 12 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 13 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 14 | I queued a long time for that loaf . |
| 15 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 16 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 17 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |
| 18 | I spend a long time with the Emergency Bed Service on the neighbour 's phone . |
| 19 | No , I mean I , cos I , you know I , i I spend a long time coarse fishing so I understand actual fishing for pleasure as opposed |
| 20 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 21 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 22 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 23 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 24 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 25 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 26 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 27 | You know a long time , a long time . |
| 28 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 29 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 30 | And she took a long time to answer it . |