Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 2 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 3 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 4 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 5 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 6 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 7 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 8 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 9 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 10 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 11 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 13 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 14 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 15 | That went on for a long time . |
| 16 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 17 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 18 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 19 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 20 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 21 | This went on for a long time . |
| 22 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |
| 23 | It was a horrific crime and I hope the two thugs who did it can be apprehended and sent away for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | Hayman thought deeply for a long while before making up his mind . |
| 25 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 26 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 27 | Nobody passed by for a long time , and he could just hear the faint music in the distance . |
| 28 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 29 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 30 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |