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

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1 He would gaze for a long time and , when Gabriel had finished his tasks , would settle again until the ghost reinforced itself somewhere else a few days later .
2 The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time .
3 He would n't have time to save himself ; the splash as he entered the stream would be the most satisfying sound she would hear in a long time .
4 Jean was tough and liked to drink ; she would endure for a long while yet .
5 Always ready to look on the bright side she expected that the remission would last for a long time , and there was a conspiracy between Maureen and her mother to conceal Julia 's suffering from her .
6 And then the hour would turn into a long space of empty time , then into a whole evening , once even into an entire night before Gloria came back .
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