Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 2 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 3 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 4 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 5 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 6 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 7 | Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes . |
| 8 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 9 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 10 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 11 | Because if it had been painted , and the paint took quite a long time to dry and er if there was a speck of dust it remained there forever . |
| 12 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |
| 13 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 14 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 15 | Such distinctions mattered more in Russia or the Dual Monarchy , where the capitalist and professional classes had still a long way to go before winning social acceptance by the old nobility . |
| 16 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 17 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 18 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 19 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 20 | He was very interested in Jenna 's accident and stayed quite a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 22 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 23 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |