Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 2 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 3 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 4 | She stayed awake for a long time wondering uneasily whether cruelty was a natural part of her character , or whether its expression was merely an aspect of growing up . |
| 5 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 6 | She sat immobile for a long time , staring into the embers of the dying fire , her thoughts so chaotic that she could hardly make any order out of them . |