Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 2 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 3 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 4 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 5 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 6 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ They 've waited a long time . |
| 8 | An overwhelmed Fogarty said : ‘ I 've waited a long time for this . |
| 9 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 10 | I 've waited a long time to be able to do this . ’ |
| 11 | I 've waited a long time for this . ’ |
| 12 | I have thought a long time about this and I think I know the answer . |
| 13 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 14 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 15 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 16 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 17 | The links between sport , the media ‘ and big business ‘ which are now so important , have taken a long time to forge . |
| 18 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 19 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 20 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 21 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I have waited a long time for this chance and it 's up to me to make the most of it . |
| 23 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 24 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 25 | The fans up there have waited a long time . |
| 26 | These , these have lasted a long time have n't |