Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 3 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 4 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 5 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
| 6 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 7 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 8 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 9 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 10 | Exactly you have to think a long time . |
| 11 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 12 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 13 | So if , as seems likely , we have to wait a long time for a follow up to the triumphant Glyndebourne production , we should be all the more grateful for occasions like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's concert performance ( sponsored by English Estates ) . |
| 14 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 15 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 16 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 17 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |