Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for a long [noun] " 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 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 10 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 11 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 12 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 13 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 16 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 17 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 18 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 22 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 23 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 24 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 25 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 30 | 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 . |