Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 2 | Grandson Richard 's reply seemed to take a long time . |
| 3 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 4 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 5 | The child was lured into a car but managed to escape a short time later . |
| 6 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 7 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 8 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 11 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 12 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 13 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 16 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |