Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a long while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 2 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
| 3 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 4 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | has n't been one published for a long while . |
| 7 | and er , she said my eyes really sparkled she said first time I 've seen them sparkle for a long while so I was right chuffed about that . |