Example sentences of "for a [adj] time [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went out with Anne for a long time before she decided to marry Alfred , or he decided to marry her . |
| 2 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 3 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 4 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 5 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 6 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 7 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 8 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 9 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |