Example sentences of "long time [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 2 | You know he sounded a long time when he was saying it . |
| 3 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ You have to make a big commitment to complete distance learning courses , and two years can be a long time when you are faced with constant learning . |
| 5 | Well it 's alright it 's not that long I suppose it 's a long time when you 're six . |
| 6 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 7 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 8 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 9 | It seemed a long time when I was a little girl , ’ added Mrs Teasdale . |
| 10 | We 've both known for a long time how we feel about each other and all the reasons why nothing can ever come of it . |