Example sentences of "[art] long silence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , breaking the long silence , Marcus said slowly in his deep resonant voice , ‘ Patrick , Patrick , wake up , it is I , Marcus Vallar , Patrick , I command you , wake up . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , the rocky tourist route to our half-way mark , Tamanrasset — the end of backwater villages , and , I hoped , of the long silence from home . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're the only Father we 've got now , Paddy , ’ said Michael , breaking the long silence at last . |
| 4 | Tom was annoyed at the long silence that followed and was just about to say something when he caught sight of Willie 's face . |
| 5 | ‘ March the eighth , ’ Ruth said , breaking the long silence . |
| 6 | The long silence that followed would become a familiar feature of night raids filled with uncertainty and pregnant with disaster . |
| 7 | Duncan broke the long silence . |
| 8 | In the long silence that followed , the solemn ticking of the clock seemed very loud indeed . |
| 9 | In the long silence that followed , Katherine looked at her son closely , realizing — for the first time — that whatever chances she had had of keeping him , had just disappeared . |
| 10 | " I 'm sorry , " Patrick said eventually into the long silence which followed . |
| 11 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 12 | The long silence had given her time to pull herself together . |
| 13 | Lewis it was who broke the long silence between them , and took out his note-book : ‘ You knew where he was going ? ’ |
| 14 | " Aunt Alicia has changed her will , " she said flatly , breaking the long silence between them . |
| 15 | As the long silence lengthened between them Laura desperately tried to find some adequate words to express her disgust at his actions . |
| 16 | In the long silence that stretched between them she could almost hear her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer in her chest . |
| 17 | In the long silence that followed Paige concentrated on the tangles in her hair . |
| 18 | In 1977 another letter came , then a long silence until 1981 , then a letter in 1984 . |
| 19 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was so untimely , ’ the Commander said passionately after a long silence , ‘ so very untimely . ’ |
| 21 | A long silence . |
| 22 | There was a long silence . |
| 23 | There was a long silence and then he said with just a trace of a smile : ‘ I am a sculptor , I am an old man and I am a Jew . ’ |
| 24 | There was a long silence , such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation . |
| 25 | There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door . |
| 26 | There was a long silence again . |
| 27 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 28 | Discussions on the subject had begun late in November , when the ‘ old navigator ’ had first became part of their lives , but Dorothy 's remark at the end of their walking tour that Coleridge 's poem would appear ‘ with some pieces of William 's ’ was followed by a long silence . |
| 29 | There was a long silence , that is long for a consulting room with a queue waiting outside , then my surgeon gave the hint of a smile and said , very quietly , ‘ Strange things happen . ’ |
| 30 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |