Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for a long " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time . |
| 32 | This brought one of Neil 's cracks of laughter and the comment , ‘ A wily gent , I see , ’ and then silence took over again , and lasted for a long time , until the front door opened , and Matey returned from the sewing circle at St Jude 's Church Hall , and stared at them , sitting there in the dusk , hunched over the board , rapt . |
| 33 | Charles collapsed like a glove puppet with the hand withdrawn , and stood for a long moment , sagging . |
| 34 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 35 | She had risen from her deep curtsey , and stood for a long moment gazing steadily into his face . |
| 36 | She went up to her room , put the Diary in her drawer and stood for a long time , breathing on the window and drawing faces . |
| 37 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 38 | He turned , their eyes met and held for a long , tense moment , then suddenly Penry flung away , so precipitate in his hurry to leave that he forgot to duck . |
| 39 | Alice went to a cafe in Finchley Road , and sat for a long time quietly by herself over strong coffee . |
| 40 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |