Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 3 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 4 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 5 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 6 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 7 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 8 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 9 | I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure . |
| 10 | I had worked a long time on the script with Dalton Trumbo and we worked very hard getting the right cast . |
| 11 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 12 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 13 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 14 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 15 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 16 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 17 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 18 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 19 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 20 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 21 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 22 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 23 | ‘ You know why I 'm here , ’ she said , her voice rasping in her throat as though she had run a long way . |
| 24 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 25 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 26 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 27 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 28 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 29 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 30 | She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way . |