Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did n't for a long time , I was only interested in whether I liked you . |
| 5 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 6 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 7 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 10 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 11 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 14 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 17 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 18 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 19 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 20 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 21 | He stayed there for a long time . |
| 22 | He stayed there for a long time , until he was sure that the dogs had gone , then he came out . |