Example sentences of "there a long " in BNC.
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1 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
2 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
3 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
4 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
5 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
6 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
7 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
8 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
9 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |
10 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
11 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
12 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
13 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |
14 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |
15 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
16 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
17 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
18 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
19 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |
20 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
21 | Well no he went out but they somebody ran in there and h well B Brian and I think Pat and David were having a drink with him and I think they suddenly thought well he 's been in there a long time . |
22 | She 's been up there a long time has n't she ? |
23 | I do n't know what to think parked cars the of a big if I can see a parked car there a long way in front of me I go I am park that car so it |
24 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |
25 | not been there a long time |