Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a long while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 2 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 3 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 4 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 5 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 6 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 7 | He waited a long while , looking out all the time for Caspar . |