Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a long time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seal spent a long time underwater , thinking . |
| 2 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 3 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
| 4 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
| 5 | It says , for instance , that it ‘ should have done what COSE did a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 7 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 8 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
| 9 | The Cage disappeared a long time ago in the past , leaving whoever buys the property , a clear view across the Chilterns into the future . |
| 10 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 12 | And it must have been the fever , Isabel decided a long time later , when she at last had time to sit down and rest . |
| 13 | They live modestly on income from securities that Edhi bought a long time ago . |
| 14 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 16 | The ditch seemed a long time ago : two weeks and three days back to the lonely silent abandoned struggle in the attic , to the life that seemed now to be the dream , with Shellerton the reality . |
| 17 | A new song , ‘ Pussy Cat Meow ’ , celebrates them and a dream Kier had a long time ago . |
| 18 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 19 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 20 | Well Aunt Sadie said a long time ago |