Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 2 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 3 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 4 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 5 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 6 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 7 | She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move . |
| 8 | You gave me a long description . ’ |
| 9 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 10 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 11 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 12 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 13 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 14 | He delivered her a long look , then smiled . |
| 15 | He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself . |
| 16 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 17 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 18 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 19 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 21 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 22 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 23 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 24 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 26 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 27 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 29 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 30 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |