Example sentences of "[pron] sat for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
2 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
3 She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery .
4 They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore .
5 They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor .
6 When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south .
7 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 .
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