Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation . |
| 2 | DON KING last night put a black cloud over the hopes of Lennox Lewis and other heavyweights hoping for a long reign as world champion , by claiming that Mike Tyson will be out of jail early next year . |
| 3 | I stood outside his door listening for a long time ; there was n't a sound . |
| 4 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 5 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |