Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [prep] [art] [adj] time " 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 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 8 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 9 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |