Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 2 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 3 | He studied her for a long time , then reached out and touched a wet strand of her hair . |
| 4 | Vitor studied her for a long , piercing moment . |
| 5 | They protected themselves for a long time . |
| 6 | Charles pressed it for a long time . |
| 7 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 8 | She refused the porter 's offer to crack open the bottle , and settled herself for a long wait . |
| 9 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 10 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 11 | After they had gone , Harriet took herself for a long walk over the cliffs , but for once the beauty of her surroundings , the early evening light on the sea , the cry of gulls and the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below , failed to soothe her . |
| 12 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 13 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 14 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 15 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 16 | She said nothing for a long time , then shook her head . |
| 17 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 18 | They none of them said anything for a long time . |
| 19 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |