Example sentences of "[verb] a long silence " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 2 | Her words themselves broke a long silence . |
| 3 | Sitting alone in the back seat Chris broke a long silence . |
| 4 | The long room contained a long silence . |
| 5 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |