Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] long time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | I spent a long time photographing the falls , taken with their grace . |
| 4 | I spent a long time reading the advertisements . |
| 5 | So I spent a long time trying to hide the place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 10 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I queued a long time for that loaf . |
| 13 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 17 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 20 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 21 | The shower was wonderfully soothing and afterwards she spent a long time drying her hair and putting on her make-up . |
| 22 | She spent a long time in the bathroom . |
| 23 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 24 | Toby ( 4.5 ) had been playing with blocks , but then wandered away and the blocks were put away by two other boys , who spent a long time carefully fitting the different sizes of blocks into the two boxes . |
| 25 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 26 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 27 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 28 | ‘ She died a long time ago . |
| 29 | Then he relaxes into a sorrowful smile , like when you remember someone you loved who died a long time ago . |
| 30 | She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her . |