Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
2 | She stands for a long moment . |
3 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
4 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
5 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
6 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
7 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
8 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
9 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
10 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
11 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
12 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
13 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
14 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
15 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
16 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
17 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
18 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
19 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
20 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
21 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
22 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
23 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
24 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
25 | ‘ You feel safer at home than what you do further away , ’ she said after a long silence , addressing no one . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
30 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |