Example sentences of "a long silence " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1977 another letter came , then a long silence until 1981 , then a letter in 1984 . |
| 2 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It was so untimely , ’ the Commander said passionately after a long silence , ‘ so very untimely . ’ |
| 4 | A long silence . |
| 5 | There was a long silence . |
| 6 | There was a long silence and then he said with just a trace of a smile : ‘ I am a sculptor , I am an old man and I am a Jew . ’ |
| 7 | There was a long silence , such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation . |
| 8 | There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door . |
| 9 | There was a long silence again . |
| 10 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 11 | Discussions on the subject had begun late in November , when the ‘ old navigator ’ had first became part of their lives , but Dorothy 's remark at the end of their walking tour that Coleridge 's poem would appear ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ was followed by a long silence . |
| 12 | There was a long silence , that is long for a consulting room with a queue waiting outside , then my surgeon gave the hint of a smile and said , very quietly , ‘ Strange things happen . ’ |
| 13 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 14 | As Argentina deployed gunboats , the Foreign Office entered a long silence over South Georgia . |
| 15 | There was a long silence before the Trapper replied . |
| 16 | A long silence prevailed . |
| 17 | The shuffling stopped , followed by a long silence . |
| 18 | There was a long silence , then someone said , ‘ Pull the other one ! ’ |
| 19 | Eventually the ground seemed to stabilize and there was a long silence during which the mist curled slowly upwards . |
| 20 | It had come from nowhere , out of a long silence , like something fired from a gun . |
| 21 | There was a long silence . |
| 22 | ‘ Did you ever take drugs ? ’ the senator asked me after a long silence . |
| 23 | There was a long silence . |
| 24 | Click , pause , click , a long silence . |
| 25 | There was quite a long silence before she said , ‘ May I tell you a story ? ’ |
| 26 | There was a long silence when the tape recorder was switched off . |
| 27 | There was always a long silence and I could see people thinking , ‘ Oh my God , this guy has lost it , big time . ' ’ |
| 28 | Again , a long silence . |
| 29 | There was a long silence , during which the maid offered her a muffin from under a silver dish . |
| 30 | ‘ Now take this meatloaf , boys , ’ her father announced after a long silence , for no-one talked unless directly addressed by the head of the family . |