Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they stood patiently in a doorway waiting for the column to pass , Catherine turned to say something to McLeish and he looked down at her for a long moment . |
| 2 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 3 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , then shook his head in disbelief . |
| 4 | He gazed down at her for a long moment , studying her features as if trying to re-gather his thoughts . |
| 5 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 6 | What distinguishes the companies still with us after a long period of recession is that they are lucky — they do not seem to have been hit by the unexpected . |
| 7 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 8 | Sometimes skipper Geoff Boycott would come up to me during a long spell and ask if I was feeling OK to continue . |
| 9 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 10 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 11 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 12 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 13 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 14 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |