Example sentences of "[prep] [art] long time i " in BNC.
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1 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
2 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
3 | After a long time I said , " Do you want me to leave you alone ? " |
4 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
5 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
6 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
7 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
8 | On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him . |
9 | But to tell the truth , for a long time I 've been slightly lost as a dealer . |
10 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
11 | For a long time I walked with my eyes on the ground , watching my feet sinking interminably into the snow . |
12 | ‘ For a long time I was feeling really lonely and wondering what they were doing , ’ she said . |
13 | For a long time I had it in mind to write a story contrasting the fates of Eck and his British counterpart . |
14 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
15 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
16 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
17 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
18 | For a long time I assumed she was joking , but not only was I wrong , I was also ignorant of the hard facts of life about the value of students with special needs and the staff who work with them . |
19 | ‘ For a long time I did n't want children , and then I wanted them . |
20 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
21 | For a long time I was not exactly sure what I wanted from Project 81 . |
22 | It was as easy as anything , and for a long time I , I felt well at least I can get in that way and then I thought oh maybe I should , you know doing , doing anything about it , but now I always go out of the other door |
23 | For a long time I was afraid that he had survived the raids of the Khabiris on our last outposts in the north ; but an infantry captain who had known him managed to make his way back to the Southern Capital and contacted my steward . |
24 | ‘ For a long time I hated you very much , ’ she said slowly . |
25 | ‘ For a long time I thought I did , ’ she confided softly . |
26 | For a long time I thought of him as ‘ my saviour ’ and even — though it was blasphemy — as my Saviour . |
27 | I hid it from everyone , ’ he said , when her brows rose in surprise , ‘ and for a long time I hid it from myself . |
28 | With a smile , the champion jockey recalled : ‘ For a long time I was always going to choose Valfinet because he has done so well and Granville Again was running terribly . |
29 | for a long time I have been |