Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 3 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 4 | Although viruses have such a simple structure , biologists do not conclude that they are necessarily ‘ primitive ’ ; that is , that they evolved a very long time ago as precursors of more complex organisms . |
| 5 | Then Mabel took charge , leading the way to the Men and Boys ' Outfitting on the first floor , where they took an equally long time comparing styles and prices of under vests , and shirts with detachable collars and cuffs . |
| 6 | They waited a very long time for his answer . |
| 7 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 8 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 9 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 10 | He took a very long time over it and in the end just lipped the hole . |
| 11 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 12 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 14 | It was still switched through to the secretary 's office , and it took an infuriatingly long time to get a line . |
| 15 | Fortunately we had a doctor in our congregation who er was s had some knowledge of psychiatry and he had a fairly long session with him , just the two of them . |
| 16 | He waited a very long time before saying , ‘ Talk , talk , talk , a man ca n't get a word in edgeways . ’ |