Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 2 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 3 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 4 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 5 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 6 | As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night . |