Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 32 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 33 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 34 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 35 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 38 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 39 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 40 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 41 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 42 | erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time . |
| 43 | 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 . ’ |
| 44 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 45 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 46 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . ’ |
| 50 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 51 | With the taste of blood still hot on her tongue , she sang in a long , keening cry of the joys of the kill … |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 54 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 55 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 56 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 57 | She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza . |
| 58 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |