Example sentences of "i [verb] for a long 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 | 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 feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 16 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 17 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |