Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] there [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
2 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
3 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
4 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
5 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
6 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
7 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |