Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] for a long " in BNC.

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1 Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked .
2 Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over .
3 He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’
4 And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour .
5 Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game .
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