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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [art] long time " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
4	I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave .
5	I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
9	I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
10	I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
11	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 .
12	‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’
13	She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night .
14	She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors .
15	She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions .
16	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 .
17	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 . ’
18	She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range .
19	She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness .
20	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 .
21	She felt more alive than she had for a long time .
22	I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones .
23	There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears .
24	When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement .
25	She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain .
26	‘ We drove for a long time .
27	I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street .
28	We travelled for a long time .
29	They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing .
30	There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn .