Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] for [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 2 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 3 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 4 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 5 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 6 | This core of lava may continue to flow for a long while , but when the supply of fresh lava slows down at source , there will not be enough coming through to fill the whole volume of the core , so an empty space will be left , and this will form a long tube or tunnel running along the centre of the flow , sometimes for many kilometres . |