Example sentences of "[pron] sat for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |
| 2 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 3 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 4 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 5 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 6 | 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 . |