Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 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 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 10 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 11 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 12 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 15 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 16 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 17 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ Sure ? ’ she said for a second time . |
| 26 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |