Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 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 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 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 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 17 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 18 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 19 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 20 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 21 | erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time . |
| 22 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 23 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 24 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 25 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 26 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 27 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 28 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 29 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 30 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |