Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] for a long [noun] " 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 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
4 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
5 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
6 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
9 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
10 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
11 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
12 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
13 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
14 | She had known for a long time now . |
15 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
16 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
17 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
18 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
19 | Alexandra had gone for a long walk before replying to this letter . |
20 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |