Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have strayed a long way from our original topic . |
| 2 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 3 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 4 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 5 | Despite all the troubles , I never heard a woman say she regretted having supported the long strike . |
| 6 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 7 | We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals . |
| 8 | It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it . |
| 9 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |