Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 We kiss for a long time , then I straighten up .
2 A rest , a quick conflab and we decide to do another twenty miles and reach our tent before we stop for a long rest .
3 We drove for a long time .
4 We watch for a long time , Tony catching the show on camera , then notice that the temperature has plummeted with the clearing of the sky and turn in .
5 A song that we hear as a long light squeal .
6 We gathered in a long , low room surrounded by pictures of donkeys and men in long striped skirts like shepherds .
7 But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before .
8 We went down a long corridor to a door bearing a sign ‘ Latvia pilot operation ’ .
9 For Total , we progressed with a long term contract to modify the Alwyn North platform and the St. Fergus gas terminal .
10 A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation .
11 Nevertheless , he has not honoured the spirit of the words that he used in Committee , where we engaged in a long debate about the value of the assets and the effect on the workers .
12 I began to wonder what was happening when we stood for a long time at Birmingham New Street .
13 We travelled for a long time .
14 What each of us does over a long period of trial and error is to acquire a set of tools with which we are comfortable and which we can apply in different ways to the myriad problems which we need to solve .
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