Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 2 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 3 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 4 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 5 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 6 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 7 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 8 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 9 | She stared at it for a long time , shivering , icy fingers trailing along her spine . |
| 10 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 11 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 12 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 13 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 14 | Sabine looked at it for a long moment , aware of a faint stirring in her consciousness , some elusive memory , fleetingly brought to life . |
| 15 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 16 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 17 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |