Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 4 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 7 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 8 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |