Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a long [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 2 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 3 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 4 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 5 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 6 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 7 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 8 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 9 | She spent a long evening working with Philip , as his assistant , handing him tools , holding steady the beam of a powerful torch . |
| 10 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 11 | I well remember our first night with the aid of father-in-law we spent a long day moving ourselves in . |
| 12 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 13 | ‘ All join up for a conga , ’ I called over the racket , and soon we had a long snake winding its way in and out of the tables and finally through the door . |
| 14 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 15 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 16 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 17 | It took a long time coming . |
| 18 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 19 | On one Borrowdale route , Deja Vu , he left a long sling dangling down to aid an injured second . |
| 20 | From the back of the room where they were made to stand apart from the family for the rest of the ceremony , the three children were able to hear only snatches of their grandfather 's words as he conducted a long discourse praising the virtues of his dead parent . |