Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a long time " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | So in the case of a ruler who reigned for a long time , coins enable us to date the changes during the reign . |
| 32 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 33 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 34 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 37 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 38 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 39 | We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up . |
| 40 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 41 | We watch for a long time , Tony catching the show on camera , then notice that the temperature has plummeted with the clearing of the sky and turn in . |
| 42 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 43 | We travelled for a long time . |
| 44 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 45 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 46 | Do they survive for a long time ? |
| 47 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 48 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 49 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 50 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 51 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 52 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 53 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 54 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 55 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 56 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 57 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 58 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 59 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |
| 60 | It is 2 ½ years since he lost in a world title match to Michael Spinks and just as he did after a similar fight , with Larry Holmes , he brooded for a long time , finally overcame problems with drugs , and went into business , part of which was as a fight promoter . |