Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
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 | 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 . |
9 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
10 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
11 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
12 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
13 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
14 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
18 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
19 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
20 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
24 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
25 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
26 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
27 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
28 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |