Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [art] long time " in BNC.
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1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
2 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
3 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
4 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
5 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
6 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
7 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
8 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
9 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
10 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
11 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
12 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
13 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
14 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
15 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
16 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |