Example sentences of "[pron] a long [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took my a long while ago . |
| 2 | She was too tired to be aware of much except the slight headache which a long journey always gave her , yet she felt curiously light-headed and carefree . |
| 3 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 4 | ‘ I forgave you a long time ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I meant to ask you a long time ago and I forgot to . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | ‘ Humankind condemned itself a long while ago to a perpetual diet of catastrophe . |
| 8 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 9 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
| 10 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 11 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 12 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 13 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 16 | Cos I seem to remember having so something a long time ago , especially the smaller theatres as well as a touring thing , you know , it 'll be handy for you |
| 17 | The band wore dinner jackets too , the girl singer more jewels than the lady guests , but Ken had sussed that one a long time ago . |
| 18 | Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’ |
| 19 | It would take him a long time then would n't it ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 22 | It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later . |
| 23 | I , I , I been out it a long while now . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 25 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 26 | I remember your saying it a long time ago . ’ |
| 27 | What a long journey home it would have been if we 'd lost . |
| 28 | Erm so that shows what a long time ago it was . |
| 29 | What a long time ago that seemed now , and how sure she had been that he would not be able to disrupt her feelings . |
| 30 | 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 . |