Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she was chopping she said , ‘ You 've known Ian a long time ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Have you known Harvey a long time ? ’ |
| 3 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 4 | It will take Iain a long time to come to terms with his conviction . |
| 5 | To discover that there is no difference in meaning between two forms may , of course , take children a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 7 | Those of you that have children or er are involved in education in any way at the moment will be well aware of the cut and problems that are going on er within reorganization within education in this country at the moment and I learnt to sail through the National School Sailing Association a long time ago er and thousands and thousands of youngsters have done that over the years . |
| 8 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 9 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 10 | And it says a , i , i it 's stating things here er if you 've been wanted operation a long time the N S H er N S H that is it , yes . |
| 11 | The hope that the BBC or ITV would move into this job as they would for Commonwealth or Olympic Games was never realistic but it has taken Sheffield a long time to come to terms with the fact . |
| 12 | And then suddenly she felt something running up her leg she looked down it was the spider , it had left Mademoiselle a long time ago and had secreted itself under a desk afraid of all the trampling feet around . |
| 13 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 14 | ‘ I left Plumford a long time ago . ’ |
| 15 | The moving mass of mainly Medau and Navy blue clad figures was a very encouraging sight to the hard working girls of the Kent Committee who had spend a long time before the event and on the day itself making sure all went according to plan . |
| 16 | I left Dublin a long time after you … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Damn , ’ said Leonora a long time afterwards . |
| 18 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |