Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 2 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 3 | They started in the Fabric Hall , and spent a long time fingering various swathes of cloth . |
| 4 | And so Willi was squeezing himself into his best suit , the one he wore for daytime ceremonial occasions , and had spattered himself lavishly with aftershave cologne , and spent a long time arranging the frill of curls round his bald crown . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 6 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 7 | He raised his eyes from the pattern and stared a long time at my friend and I — the only two white people on the journey . |
| 8 | A tightly compacted surface of graded stones kept water at bay and lasted a long time . |