Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] for [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
3 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
8 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
9 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
10 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
11 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
12 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |