Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 2 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 5 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 6 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 7 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 8 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 9 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 10 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 11 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 12 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 13 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 14 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |