Example sentences of "[adv prt] for as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 2 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 3 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 4 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 5 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 6 | Otherwise carry on for as long as you feel fit . |
| 7 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 9 | Self-select P E Ps are a little bit different , is that when you , you the managers give you a choice of shares and it 's rather like pulling the handle on the one-armed bandit , you say right , I 'll start with er er I C I and I 'll back that up with B A T , and , and you leave them in for as long as you want , and you pay a charge when you move the shares , so you can actually control the P E P . |
| 10 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 11 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 12 | They will put the moment off for as long as possible or refuse to acknowledge that it is coming along and then protest that they were not told . |
| 13 | No sketcher nor painter nor artist wanted to see the elastic weals on a model 's shoulders and chest and hips and thighs , every model left her underwear off for as many hours as possible before posing . |
| 14 | ‘ Hold them off for as long as you can . ’ |
| 15 | Prices have gone up and up for as long as Texas can remember . |
| 16 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 17 | Unfit scrappers with a weight difference of a couple of stone can slug it out for as long as the organizers see fit and the sport can accommodate fighters who might have been barred from the more formal ring or people who want to avoid the cartels that run the official game . |
| 18 | The boss said you were to take her out for as long as you wanted , sir . |
| 19 | We 'll be coming back for as long as we can . |
| 20 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 21 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 22 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 23 | We did n't hang around for as long that day — we must rigged the boats ( with a little help ) and prepared to set off . |
| 24 | In ‘ Fighting talk ’ the two are tied together in the nostalgic account of an idyllic childhood landscape , all large back gardens and open public spaces , where you could mooch about for as long as you wanted . |