Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] for a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 2 | Gorbad halted the attack and prepared for a long siege . |
| 3 | In the Chandni Chowk shopkeepers boarded up their premises , buried their treasure and prepared for a long period of unrest . |
| 4 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 5 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 6 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 7 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 8 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time . |