Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read for a long time , and I had the bonus of knowing my father was waiting impatiently to fuck her again on this night of nights which was really their honeymoon . |
| 2 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 3 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 4 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 5 | She says in the longer term there are substantial benefits from returning organic matter to the soil . |
| 6 | ‘ We should never have come , ’ she muttered after a long silence , ‘ and if I had my way , we 'd leave here tomorrow . |
| 7 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 8 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 9 | She walked for a long time , while the feeling of the streets changed to night . |
| 10 | She walked for a long time , past hundreds of doors . |
| 11 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 12 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |
| 13 | She chatted for a long time to a friendly Madame Pompadour , who professed to love Wales and bombarded her with intimate questions . |
| 14 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 15 | Her dark , grey-streaked hair , which she wore in a long bob , had been cut by Vidal Sassoon and she wore a beautifully tailored black suit relieved only by a little white flounce at the neckline . |
| 16 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 17 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 18 | She thought for a long time , not looking at him , but at the glowing red centre of the range . |
| 19 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 20 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 21 | She stared through the long net curtains out on to the ‘ tZand , empty now in the thickening twilight , and suddenly her wariness dissolved . |
| 22 | With the taste of blood still hot on her tongue , she sang in a long , keening cry of the joys of the kill … |
| 23 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 24 | She lay for a long while , the tears falling . |
| 25 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 26 | She hesitated for a long moment , then suddenly thrust out her arm . |
| 27 | Determined not to present him with any more ammunition , she paused for a long moment , considering her words carefully before trying again . |
| 28 | She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza . |
| 29 | Min 's head was almost level with her shoulders and she smoked with a long black cigaretteholder . |
| 30 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |