Example sentences of "a long time [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fagin took what Sikes gave him , then stared at the robber for a long time without speaking . |
| 2 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 3 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 4 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 5 | She had looked at Sylvie for a long time before speaking . |
| 6 | He waits a long time before seizing her , getting to know her habits and other information about her , but she is really a complete stranger who has never met or loved him , unlike Daisy and Gatsby who at least know each other before the book begins . |
| 7 | Indulging in litigation may mean that you have to expend substantial sums of money and wait a long time before achieving victory ; to lose could prove very costly . |
| 8 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 9 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 10 | But it does need to be borne in mind that although this form of sudden death can create such instantaneous reactions there are also people who hide and keep quiet and suffer for a long time before finding the opportunity to talk to someone about their feelings or until another trigger sets them grieving . |
| 11 | She seemed to lie in bed for a long time before falling asleep . |
| 12 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 13 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 14 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 15 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 16 | In the era of austerity , consolidating the welfare state had required strong political backing , something that was a long time in coming until depression and war eventually mobilised these forces . |
| 17 | ‘ The pace of life is slow there — things take a long time in changing . |