Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
2 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
3 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
4 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
5 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
6 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
7 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
8 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
9 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
10 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
11 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
12 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
13 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
14 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
15 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
16 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
17 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |