Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] a long [noun sg] " 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 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 5 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 7 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 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 know you a long time , right ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 16 | Great , they last me a long time |
| 17 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 18 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 19 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 20 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 21 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 22 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
| 23 | He delivered her a long look , then smiled . |
| 24 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 25 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 26 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 27 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 30 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |