Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 2 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 3 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 4 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 5 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 7 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 11 | Although this disparity reflects the real world of budget limits , it could scupper the care programmes that the psychiatry department is meant to set up for seriously mentally ill patients and make planning for discharge more difficult . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 14 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 15 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 18 | It is n't always easy for anyone to get to the bottom of every detail of a bill er which refers to earlier legislation and erm er er I 'm sure that my Noble Friend would sympathise anyhow erm er er w with with me insofar as I also do not have the advantage of er legal qualifications which he manages to make up for most adequately . |
| 19 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 20 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |