Example sentences of "[v-ing] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 2 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 3 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 4 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 5 | I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 7 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 8 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 9 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 10 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 11 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 12 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 13 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 14 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 15 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 16 | A much quoted example is in Latin American cultures , where sales representatives are often kept waiting a long time for a business appointment ; in our culture this would be unorthodox , and at best it would be seen as being very bad mannered . |
| 17 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 18 | He believed that it was possible to " foresee this war of positions between the two Spains lasting a long time " , unless there occurred " the intervention of internal political factors ( revolution in one of the two Spains ) or external political factors ( mediation or a more active form of intervention by the Powers ) " . |
| 19 | It took Rauschning a long time to realise that his standpoint was exactly opposite to Forster 's . |
| 20 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 21 | He is absent yet meticulous , paying for a missing drink-shop teaspoon which has nothing to do with him , and spending a long time in the ‘ interesting occupation ’ of trying to catch a fly . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems to be taking a long time , ’ Omi observed . |
| 23 | Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee . |
| 24 | Although John was generally a quick worker , Anne Heaton remembers him as taking a long time over this work and seeming nervous about it . |
| 25 | For example , a client may come to a bureau because he is concerned that the housing benefit to which he is entitled is taking a long time to materialise . |
| 26 | Our prospective visitor bowed to the inevitable and wrote to us : ‘ Owing to procedure for obtaining a visa usually taking a long time it seems impossible to start our work at the date you suggested . |
| 27 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 28 | ‘ These lights seem to be taking a long time to change ’ |
| 29 | Not returning calls , or taking a long time to do so . |
| 30 | You may have recollections of taking a long time to achieve competence in one particular skill , and wonder whether on returning you will be given adequate time to practise and revise . |