Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a long time " 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 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 4 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 6 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 7 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 11 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 12 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 13 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 16 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 17 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 18 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 19 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 20 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 21 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 22 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 23 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 24 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 25 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 26 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 27 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 28 | He had quite liked the thought of being fit and athletic some time in the future , although the signs had taken a long time coming . |
| 29 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 30 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |