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 . |