Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 2 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 5 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 9 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 12 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 13 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My first ambition was to be a concert pianist , but I come from a long line of actors and I suppose it was inevitable really that I 'd follow them . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps I come from a long line of knights and no-one ever told me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 21 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 22 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 23 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 25 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 26 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 27 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 28 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 29 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 30 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |