Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 32 | Our visit had taken a long time and we returned to Skeldale House for lunch . |
| 33 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 34 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 35 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 36 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 37 | She had waited a long time for this moment . |
| 38 | After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely . |
| 39 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 40 | Darlington had waited a long time for a shopping centre , she said , but the wait had its advantages . |
| 41 | Christophe was extremely fit and used to the 100 per cent humidity , and had learnt a long time back to carry the absolute minimum — a battered still camera and two oranges for lunch — for a full day in the forest . |
| 42 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |
| 43 | They stood talking a long time at the crossroads before separating but he did n't offer to see her over the weekend . |