Example sentences of "had [verb] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 2 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 3 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 4 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 5 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 6 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 7 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 8 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 9 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 10 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 11 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 12 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 13 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 14 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 15 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 16 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 17 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 18 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 19 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 20 | Certainly Edward 's last ( and only surviving ) letter to the critic suggests that the period of mentorship had lasted for a reasonable time , probably at least a year . |
| 21 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |