Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 6 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 7 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 8 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 9 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 10 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |
| 11 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 12 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 13 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 14 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 15 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 16 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 17 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |
| 18 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |