Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’
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 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 I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it .
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 said about a million times .
9 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped .
13 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 .
14 After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking .
15 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
16 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
17 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
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