Example sentences of "[pron] sat [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 2 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 3 | So with all this in mind , as I sat in a long queue of airmen for the preliminary examination , I was thankful . |
| 4 | She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery . |
| 5 | One of the things that some chaps found amusing when they went to the " heads " ( the head is what the Navy calls the loo ) , you sat in a long row and a great flush of water ran right through a row of 20 or 30 . |
| 6 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 7 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 8 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 9 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |