Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] a long time " in BNC.

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1 It must have been the change in engine tone that woke her a long time later .
2 Sheldukher killed him a long time ago . ’
3 We lost ours a long time ago , but some people are still clinging to it , as they would to a piece of wreckage , in the hope that it will remain afloat .
4 Well I actually rang them up to say , why why are you taking my wages into consideration , I did n't break up this marriage , I met him a long time afterwards an I was told by a C S A agent or clerk or whatever , that my wedding was nonessential spending .
5 It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors .
6 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
7 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
8 It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like .
9 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
10 ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
11 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
12 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
13 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
14 Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot .
15 It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them .
16 It took me a long time to find .
17 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
18 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
19 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
20 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
21 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
22 One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction .
23 However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles .
24 THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad .
25 it took them a long time to begin with when he started .
26 It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time .
27 Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence .
28 Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’
29 It took him a long time to recover .
30 It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered .
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