Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 4 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 7 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 8 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 9 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 10 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 12 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 13 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 14 | ‘ She has waited a long time for rest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 17 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 20 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 21 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 22 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 23 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 24 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 25 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 27 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 28 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 29 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 30 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |