Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [art] long [noun] " 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 showed him the long notes and the short notes .
8 She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move .
9 You gave me a long description . ’
10 You did it a long time before anybody else .
11 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 .
12 She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest .
13 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 .
14 Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence .
15 He delivered her a long look , then smiled .
16 He took her the long way through the house again , and Belinda tried to orientate herself .
17 It took me a long while to pay it off .
18 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
19 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
20 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
21 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 .
22 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
23 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
24 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 .
25 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
26 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
27 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
28 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
29 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
30 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 .
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