Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 32 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 33 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 34 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 35 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 36 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 37 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 38 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 39 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 40 | The hon. Gentleman asks whether we could debate them after they have been debated in the European Community , but we are talking about a long time ahead . |
| 41 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 42 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 43 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 44 | It is now widely realised that a comprehensive education for a mentally handicapped child should continue over a longer time than the normal educational period of 5–16 years . |
| 45 | ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend . |
| 46 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 47 | You can use preservative-treated softwood , and if you also treat all the cut ends and joints with preservative , it should last quite a long time . |
| 48 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 49 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 50 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 51 | He was very interested in Jenna 's accident and stayed quite a long time . |
| 52 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 53 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 54 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |