Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 7 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 8 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 9 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 10 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 11 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 12 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 13 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 15 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 16 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 17 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 18 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 19 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 20 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 21 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 22 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 23 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 24 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 25 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 28 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 29 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 30 | Exactly you have to think a long time . |