Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 2 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 3 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 4 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 5 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 6 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 7 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 8 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 9 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |