Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [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 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 4 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 5 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 8 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 9 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 14 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |