Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Anyone who is stupid enough to try and derail a train should be locked away for a long time . |
| 32 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 33 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 34 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 35 | Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’ |
| 36 | This peak was not reached again for a long period , but by 1989 it had reached 76.4 per cent ( Employment Gazette , November 1989 ) . |
| 37 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 38 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 39 | They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world . |
| 40 | Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire . |
| 41 | By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more . |
| 42 | Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait . |
| 43 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 44 | He finished fourth to Baies and The Thinker at Haydock last week , running well for a long way . |
| 45 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 46 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 47 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't think that will happen again for a long time , ’ said Davis , who comes to Goffs for this year 's event with confidence boosted by triumphs in the British and European Opens . |
| 49 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 50 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 51 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 52 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 53 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 54 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 55 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 56 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 57 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 58 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 59 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 60 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |