Example sentences of "i [verb] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Can I have for a long time . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
7 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
8 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
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 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
20 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
21 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |