Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 2 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 3 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 4 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 5 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 6 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 7 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 8 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |
| 9 | The war 's going to last a long time yet . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ For one who intends to stay a long time with us , Englishman , you know little of us . |
| 11 | Citing cases , though usually a necessary part of the moot , tends to take a long time and to be boring for the audience . |
| 12 | ‘ This is going to take a long time , ’ said Tony . |
| 13 | Formed in teams , this task it was then to er across the practice areas whose task it was to get into those clients , get to know them , get to know their industry , get to know the people and find ways in which we could actually penetrate them and er open doors and that was going to take a long time and it is taking a long time . |
| 14 | It 's going to take a long time yet . |
| 15 | That 's going to take a long time . |
| 16 | We have come to realize that many of us will not see the improvements in our quality of life , as this is going to take a long time . |
| 17 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 18 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 19 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 20 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 21 | The libel laws should be changed to provide a ‘ fast track ’ system allowing victims of media falsehoods to correct them quickly without having to wait a long time for their cases to go to court and gamble on the result . |
| 22 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 23 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 24 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 25 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 26 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 27 | It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now . |
| 28 | Unless you 've been asked to fill a longer time , aim at making your item three to four minutes in length . |
| 29 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 30 | They 're , and they 're very good and they , they tend to stay a long time . |