Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I asked after a long pause .
2 ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago .
3 I looked across the long row of pens .
4 Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan .
5 After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park .
6 I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted .
7 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 .
8 I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
9 It was a most fruitful involvement and I can never be grateful enough for what I learned about the long history of Burma and the Buddhist culture which was woven into the life of the people .
10 I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave .
11 no it 's not addressing the issue but I said in the longer term that could be one of the options
12 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 In an agony of excitement , I searched in the long grass bordering the river , following the line to where the fish lay , gasping .
16 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 .
17 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
18 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
19 So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful .
20 I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
21 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
22 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
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