Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending . |
| 2 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 3 | Big overlap on , especially on stuff like this about the dynamics erm do n't forget that sort of first sheet I gave you a long time ago about |
| 4 | I wrote her a long long |
| 5 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 6 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | Hastily she sat down , and was relieved when the tall doctor took a seat safely distant from her own and reached to the table that separated them to pour her a long drink of the invitingly iced fruit juice . |
| 8 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 9 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 10 | It 's funny you know , if you give them a long name |
| 11 | She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move . |
| 12 | You gave me a long description . ’ |
| 13 | You did it a long time before anybody else . |
| 14 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 15 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 16 | She gave me a long , disdainful , disappointed look and then out of the charity of her heart , graciously excused me thus : |
| 17 | She gave me a long , loving look . |
| 18 | She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest . |
| 19 | She gave him a long , appraising look , then asked silkily , ‘ Well , how much would it be — without the greenhouse ? ’ |
| 20 | She gave him a long , steady look . |
| 21 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 22 | We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat . |
| 23 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 24 | We wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 25 | We wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 26 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
| 27 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
| 28 | We wish them a long , healthy and happy retirement . |
| 29 | Great , they last me a long time |
| 30 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |