Example sentences of "i [vb past] for a 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 . |