Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long silence " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 2 | Then , breaking the long silence , Marcus said slowly in his deep resonant voice , ‘ Patrick , Patrick , wake up , it is I , Marcus Vallar , Patrick , I command you , wake up . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're the only Father we 've got now , Paddy , ’ said Michael , breaking the long silence at last . |
| 4 | ‘ March the eighth , ’ Ruth said , breaking the long silence . |
| 5 | " Aunt Alicia has changed her will , " she said flatly , breaking the long silence between them . |
| 6 | Duncan broke the long silence . |
| 7 | Lewis it was who broke the long silence between them , and took out his note-book : ‘ You knew where he was going ? ’ |
| 8 | Her words themselves broke a long silence . |
| 9 | Sitting alone in the back seat Chris broke a long silence . |
| 10 | The long room contained a long silence . |
| 11 | 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 . |