Example sentences of "[vb past] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 5 | She closed her eyes again , tossed and turned for a long time , then finally managed to get a couple of hours of disturbed sleep . |
| 6 | Bank current account loan or ordinary loan Cash loan usually for specific purpose ( like buying expensive durables or cars ) for people with bank accounts , usually without security ( unless it 's a large sum or borrowed for a long time ) ; usually fixed , regular payments over two or three ( occasionally up to seven ) years ; interest on what is owed fluctuates in line with but rather higher than bank base rate . |
| 7 | The Hudson Report received a general welcome from interested parties in agricultural education but , like reports on many other areas of further education , nothing happened for a long time . |
| 8 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 9 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 10 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 11 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 12 | They stayed on the hill and talked for a long time . |
| 13 | Folk myths and wisdoms survived for a long time . |
| 14 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 15 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 16 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 17 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Rohan felt for a long time — a tug of loyalty between his grandfather , and the de Rochefort family . |
| 20 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 21 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 22 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 23 | It stayed there and grew for a long time , until it was a real baby . |
| 24 | He lay for a long time , listening to the storm as it blew itself out . |
| 25 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |
| 26 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 30 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |