Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 2 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 3 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 4 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 5 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 6 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 7 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 8 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 9 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 10 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 11 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 12 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 13 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 14 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |