Example sentences of "[verb] there a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay there a long time in the bath , soaking , looking through the open door at his sleeping figure on the bed . |
| 2 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 3 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 4 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 5 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 6 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 7 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 8 | He stood there a long time , letting the feeling ebb . |