Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 2 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 3 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 4 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 5 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |
| 6 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |