Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 2 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 3 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 4 | She did n't breathe for a long time . |
| 5 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 6 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 7 | Jenna did n't know if he meant that they had finally arrived after a long journey or if he was reliving his youth here , claiming his past again . |
| 8 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 9 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 10 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 11 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 12 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 13 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 14 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 15 | This technique was highly dangerous and required the skills that Cheshire had certainly acquired over a long period , but was equally within Gibson 's exceptional abilities . |