Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 5 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 6 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 12 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 13 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 14 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Hudson Report received a general welcome from interested parties in agricultural education but , like reports on many other areas of further education , nothing happened for a long time . |
| 17 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 18 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 19 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 20 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 21 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 22 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 23 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 24 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 25 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 26 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 27 | She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time . |
| 28 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 29 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 30 | However , the Communists , who emerged for a second time as power broker despite their loss of seven seats in parliament , has made it clear that they will not collaborate with the Pasok leader whom they indicted for alleged wrongdoing during the interim left-right coalition government of Mr Tzannis Tzannetakis . |