Example sentences of "there for a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 2 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 3 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 4 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 5 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 6 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |