Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
6 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
8 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |