Example sentences of "stand for a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just sit down and and sit still for a minute because you 'll be standing for a long time playing the recorder as well , if you want if you want to go to the toilet just take yourself all right . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 4 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 5 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 6 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |