Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 4 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 5 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 6 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 9 | We look forward to a long and growing relationship . ’ |
| 10 | I do have some sympathy for cou councillor I do know this area and I I do know the traffic problems there and and we do really in the long term need to do something about it . |
| 11 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 12 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They turned abruptly into the long gardens of the Inner Temple , fenced off from sightseers . |
| 15 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Angel 's fingers drummed angrily on the steering wheel as he gazed moodily at the long , straight road ahead of them . |
| 19 | He did so after a long consultation with the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 21 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 22 | And Mary as he had first seen her appeared before him again like an apparition as he slid slowly into a long sleep . |
| 23 | And the two of them working together over a long time , they would work |