Example sentences of "long while [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time for a long while that Tommy had come into the dining rooms for his morning break and Carrie had spotted him from the window as he pulled up outside and climbed down wearily from his horsecart . |
| 2 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 3 | Seem to put them away for a long while but |
| 4 | William sat by the phone for a long while after he had called Preston , wondering if he 'd done the right thing . |
| 5 | It would be a long while before he turned into one of the Elders , hiding away in a living death , nurturing their effete Dreams , too fastidious to get involved with the tumult of humanity . |
| 6 | When the names and numbers were read out it was a long while before we heard the name of Deerhurst . |
| 7 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 8 | It was a long while before Mary could forgive her husband 's infidelity , and she had never seen or spoken to her sister since then . |
| 9 | It was a long while before I could even change her nappy , and putting clothes on , you had to disconnect all the wires , put the clothes on and put them all back . |
| 10 | ‘ He could stay in hiding a long while before we flushed him out . ’ |
| 11 | It was a long while before John got to sleep that night . |
| 12 | Yeah yeah I went , well eventually but like you say it was long wh it was a long while before I actually did get to sleep but got there eventually I 'm been to solicitor today Annie . |
| 13 | I do n't know , he come , he said to me er we we well he come over , you see when I come home from hospital he sa , he had to report to come and see me he was a long while before he did come ! |
| 14 | But it took her such a long while before she would sit in one of these . |
| 15 | Takes a long while before they forget about that , does n't it ? |
| 16 | It was a long while since she had heard Con laugh like that ; lately , he never seemed to find much to laugh at . |
| 17 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 18 | Neither of the Glovers had used a public telephone for a long while and were astonished to find themselves confronted by a totally unfamiliar contraption . |
| 19 | He has n't play in the 1st team since a long while and will be bring some enthusiasm to the team . |
| 20 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 21 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 22 | Well we had some did n't we a long while and |
| 23 | He 's had bad breath for a long while and she said his tee , cos she tried to clean his teeth with a toothbrush . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I suppose it will come right in the end its taken a long while because look at that lump there |