Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |
| 2 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 3 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 4 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 5 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 6 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 7 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 8 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 9 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 10 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 11 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 12 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 13 | ‘ Have I come at a bad time ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 15 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 18 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 19 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 22 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 24 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 25 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 26 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 27 | Now , as a background to that , I actually had one of my officers at undertake research of the in to establish what the demands were made upon us from th the section which includes at the present time . |
| 28 | These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods . |
| 29 | Far from being ‘ immoral ’ or promiscuous , there is plentiful evidence that in fact the working class , partly inheriting structures from their rural predecessors , had a very clear set of ethics of their own which survived for a considerable time . |
| 30 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |