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

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1 I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it .
2 I stood for a long while looking at Voting Right .
3 She lay for a long while , the tears falling .
4 She sat for a long while , until her limbs became cold and stiff and her mind numb with tiredness and misery .
5 I had not realized how close they had been but she grieved for a long while for the grandmother to whom she had felt close and in whom she had found it easy to confide .
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