Example sentences of "think for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 2 | It was thought for a long time that he was a Carthusian but there is no firm evidence for this . |
| 3 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marilla thought for a long time . |
| 7 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 8 | She thought afterwards , and was to think for a long time , that it was Sophie and Teodor who saved her . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |
| 10 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |