Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found it too long and not very informative , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 3 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 4 | Apologising for not being in Northern Ireland since his first concert three years ago , he added : ‘ I 'm sorry it took me so long to get back . |
| 5 | If there voting on then it 's traditional , point of order during the speech , thank you very much and what took me so long . |
| 6 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 7 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 8 | ‘ When it took you so long to get here , I thought you must have gone on up to his place with him , but I suppose Nicky Kai is still in residence . |
| 9 | They say , ah well , we followed you for a tenth of a mile , right , and it took you so long to cover that . |
| 10 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 11 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 12 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 13 | It took her so long to roll the joint , she 'd slowed down before she even put a match to it . |
| 14 | He unfolded his incredibly long legs , arranged a white scarf at his throat and checked the mirror . |
| 15 | I think I left it too long . |
| 16 | I think that 's what it was I left it too long . |
| 17 | Well they had it so long anyway . |