Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun] a long " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I left Plumford a long time ago . ’ |
2 | I left Dublin a long time after you … ’ |
3 | ‘ Have you known Harvey a long time ? ’ |
4 | It allowed Nicholas a long , hard night 's sleep , followed by a splitting headache in the morning . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He gave Zen a long , level look , daring him to deny it . |