Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 2 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 4 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 5 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 6 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 7 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 8 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 9 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 10 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 11 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 12 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
| 13 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 14 | I will feel a greater feeling of personal well being … a greater feeling of personal safety … and security … than I have felt for a long , long time . |
| 15 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 16 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 17 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 18 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 19 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 20 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 21 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | I stood staring for a long while . |
| 23 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 24 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 25 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 26 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 27 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 28 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 29 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 30 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |