Example sentences of "i [verb] for a long " in BNC.

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1 Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like .
2 Can I have for a long time .
3 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 .
4 After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park .
5 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 .
6 I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment .
7 I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave .
8 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’
16 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 .
17 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
18 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
19 I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain .
20 I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
21 I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror .
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