Example sentences of "there [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 2 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 3 | One night , later in their affair , O woke up in the middle of one of his long and noisy dreams and lay there for a long time looking at Boy 's face as he slept . |
| 4 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 5 | Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time . |
| 6 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 7 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 8 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 9 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 10 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 11 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 12 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 13 | Sat there for a long time , her mind blank . |
| 14 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 15 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 16 | ‘ I was there for a long time , but I ca n't remember anyone visiting me . |
| 17 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 18 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 19 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 20 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 21 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 22 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 23 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 24 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 25 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 26 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 27 | And er the trainer on medical practices has been out there for a long long time doing this so there 's a lot a wealth of experience there . |
| 28 | Aha this was a man who had been a joiner there for a long time . |
| 29 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |
| 30 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |