Example sentences of "[verb] a long time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 3 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 4 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 5 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 6 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 9 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 10 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 11 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 12 | I think it will take a long time before I could go out on my own , ’ Mr Norrie added . |
| 13 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 14 | Now the trouble with fractions is if you do n't know your tables it can be you can work it out you could get there but it 'll take a long time if you do know your tables you just go , Yeah three fours are twelve . |
| 15 | Shoelaces are difficult ; most five-year-olds manage to tie them , but it 'll take a long time if the only practice she gets is actually putting on the shoes each morning . |
| 16 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 17 | It seems a long time since a general book on this theme appeared in English , and John Whitehead 's provides an all-round introduction . |
| 18 | ‘ It seems a long time since we had a chance to talk alone . ’ |
| 19 | It seems a long time since we ate together in this kitchen . |
| 20 | It seems a long time since we started , |
| 21 | It took a long time before she could even bring herself to close her eyes , let alone contemplate sleep . |
| 22 | It took a long time before she 'd sit in that chair . |
| 23 | It took a long time before she would sit in there though did n't it ? |
| 24 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 25 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 26 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 27 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |