Example sentences of "my [noun] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 2 | I just felt like I would have given my right arm to be there with a camera — and that stayed in my mind for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | I got up feeling bilious and with a burning headache , wobbling from the previous day 's struggle , as if I were finding my legs after a long illness . |
| 4 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 5 | I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank . |
| 6 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 7 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 8 | She was my friend for a long time because we got on really well together . |
| 9 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 10 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 11 | In my dream I was carrying a small child in my arms down a long road . |
| 12 | My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier . |
| 13 | However , Muslim ex-singer Stevens , now Yusuf Islam 's reaction was anything but angry : ‘ I 've been trying to get record companies to stop selling my records for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | One day in October 1582 he came to my house with a long face . |