Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 2 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 3 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 4 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 5 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 6 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 7 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 9 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 10 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 11 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 12 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 15 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 16 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 17 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 18 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 19 | Exactly you have to think a long time . |
| 20 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 21 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 22 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 26 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |