Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [art] long time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
5 I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave .
6 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
11 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
12 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
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