Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 2 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 3 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 4 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 5 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 6 | The driver , as it turned out , was a retired admiral , and unfortunately he spent a long time finding our house … ‘ |
| 7 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
| 8 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 9 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |