Example sentences of "stand [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 2 | At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period . |
| 3 | He went on : ‘ I told the lads they can create something to tell their kids and grandchildren about because if we do beat Reading 's run , the record will stand for a long , long time . |
| 4 | Just sit down and and sit still for a minute because you 'll be standing for a long time playing the recorder as well , if you want if you want to go to the toilet just take yourself all right . |
| 5 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 6 | We embraced , standing in a long corridor |
| 7 | By the time the two week World Film Festival winds down at the beginning of September most of the cinephiles standing in the long queues at the box office have no idea what they 're waiting for ; they 'll watch anything that moves . |
| 8 | The men were now standing in the long attic corridor containing the sleeping quarters Grant had visited on his recce of the house . |
| 9 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 10 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 11 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 12 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
| 13 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 14 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 15 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 16 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 17 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 18 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 19 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 20 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 21 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 22 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 23 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 24 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
| 25 | The headless trunk stood for a long second , the blood fountaining in a gush of scarlet from the raw stump of its neck , before collapsing bonelessly to the mat . |
| 26 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 27 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 28 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 29 | She had showered and washed her hair , dabbed on her favourite Anaïs Anaïs , and stood before the long mirror in her bedroom , criticising her reflection . |
| 30 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |