Example sentences of "[pron] stand [prep] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right . |
2 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
3 | I stood for a long time , staring at the mirror . |
4 | She stands for a long moment . |
5 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
6 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
7 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
8 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
9 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
10 | I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street . |
11 | In the garden of Burleigh Court , situated near the present Ulster Bank , there stood for a long time an old pear tree known as ‘ King William 's pear tree ’ . |
12 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
13 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
14 | They stood at the long sash windows of his office and looked out across the building-site . |