Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a long time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace .
3 I spent a long time reading the advertisements .
4 So I spent a long time trying to hide the place .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’
9 Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his
10 ‘ 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 .
11 I queued a long time for that loaf .
12 I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so .
13 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 .
14 The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up .
15 She spent a long time in the bathroom .
16 She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last .
17 She took a long time to dress .
18 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 .
19 And she took a long time to answer it .
20 She died a long time ago .
21 She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her .
22 She waited a long time in a small office , but after an hour a policeman came into the room .
23 By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother .
24 I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different ,
25 She sat a long time by herself , looking at the forsythia .
26 I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’
27 We spent a long time on the sofa that evening , and I would have stayed the night if he 'd asked me but he did n't .
28 And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him .
29 We waited a long time at Enniskillen , an RAF helicopter buzzing above the castle .
30 We waited a long time , and Charlotte wrote more advertisements .
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