Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a long while " in BNC.
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| 1 | they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago ! |
| 2 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 3 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 4 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've known her a long while ? ’ |
| 6 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 7 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 8 | Took my a long while ago . |
| 9 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |