Example sentences of "i [verb] a long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 2 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 3 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 4 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 5 | I spent a long time diving frantically after them , jamming the sheet at a bunch only to see half of them streaking out the other end , and I might have gone on indefinitely had I not felt a gentle touch on my arm . |
| 6 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 7 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 8 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |