Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 32 | With the taste of blood still hot on her tongue , she sang in a long , keening cry of the joys of the kill … |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 35 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 36 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 37 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 42 | She had on a long blue dress . |
| 43 | ‘ You feel safer at home than what you do further away , ’ she said after a long silence , addressing no one . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 48 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 49 | When his mouth engulfed her sex she held in a long breath . |
| 50 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 51 | As she hurried down a long corridor , her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night . |
| 52 | I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide . |
| 53 | ‘ We drove for a long time . |
| 54 | We gathered in a long , low room surrounded by pictures of donkeys and men in long striped skirts like shepherds . |
| 55 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 56 | We went down a long corridor to a door bearing a sign ‘ Latvia pilot operation ’ . |
| 57 | For Total , we progressed with a long term contract to modify the Alwyn North platform and the St. Fergus gas terminal . |
| 58 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 59 | Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers . |
| 60 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |