Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] a long time " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 | 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 . |
10 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
11 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
12 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
16 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
17 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
18 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . ’ |
21 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
22 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
23 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
24 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
25 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
26 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
27 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
28 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
29 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
30 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |