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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.

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1	And I mean a long time ! ’
2	I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life .
3	Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ .
4	It is my experience that whenever I try to combine shooting and ferreting I wait a long time for the chance of a shot , then there is something else to be done .
5	" I know a long time .
6	I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace .
7	I spent a long time reading the advertisements .
8	So I spent a long time trying to hide the place .
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	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 . ’
12	I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’
13	Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his
14	‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny .
15	I queued a long time for that loaf .
16	Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’
17	I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so .
18	I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together .
19	I spend a long time with the Emergency Bed Service on the neighbour 's phone .
20	No , I mean I , cos I , you know I , i I spend a long time coarse fishing so I understand actual fishing for pleasure as opposed
21	It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised .
22	There seems to be a memory for elaborate patterns and sequences which takes a long time to develop .
23	So you could just all out in rhyming prose which takes a long time .
24	Pro Arte brushes have lovely points which last a long time .
25	Sage , rosemary and lavender need no visual description , though it is not always realized that sage has spikes of vividly blue-mauve flowers which last a long time and are highly magnetic to bees .
26	An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support .
27	Which took a long time to recover from .
28	If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering .
29	Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them .
30	A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection .