Example sentences of "sit [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 2 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 3 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 4 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |
| 5 | Four clerks sit at a long desk , chatting . |
| 6 | Moran sat for a long time . |
| 7 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 8 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 9 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 10 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 11 | The Collector sat for a long time contemplating his boots which , because of the dampness , had become covered in green mould . |
| 12 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 13 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 14 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 15 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 16 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 17 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 18 | Andrus sat for a long time . |
| 19 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 20 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 21 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 22 | The two young men sat on a long seat under the shadow of a tall tree . |