Example sentences of "[pron] a long [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do . |
| 3 | These flowers have lasted me a long time cos Ruth gave them to me on my birthday last month . |
| 4 | enabled them to buy their Council houses , at er cheaper rate because they 've lived in them a long time and its , its given a lot of people more independence , unemployment would of happened who ever was in power |
| 5 | Well we had some did n't we a long while and |
| 6 | Coffin gave him a long look and he was n't laughing . |
| 7 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 8 | The aluminium is corrosion resistant , giving it a long life and our systems are made to BS 2997 and are mostly BBA approved . |
| 9 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 10 | Well you , I mean to say that I 've had mine a long time and you ai n't done much mileage on it . |