Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 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 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 5 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 8 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 14 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 15 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 16 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 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 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 28 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 29 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 30 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |