Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 4 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 5 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 6 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 7 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 8 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 9 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 10 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 11 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 12 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 13 | We look forward to a long and growing relationship . ’ |
| 14 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 15 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 16 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 17 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 18 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 19 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 20 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 22 | As she let her breath out on a long sigh Hilary moved reluctantly away . |
| 23 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 24 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 25 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 26 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 27 | He came in with a long stride , with head erect , and calm authoritative eyes . |
| 28 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 29 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 30 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |