Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for [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 | ‘ I think you would have got up and walked out , but I wanted to stay on for ever . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |
| 6 | and you 'll be pleased to know that because we 've waffled on for so much we 'll have to save the county 's peculiar pastimes until tomorrow , |
| 7 | You doing a swim because that costs more , but it 's not just actual spa we 've put down for though |
| 8 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 9 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 10 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 11 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 12 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 13 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |
| 14 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 15 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 16 | KINGS FOUNTAIN was last night given the clean bill of health he required to line up for tomorrow 's Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 17 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 18 | But it was Berty getting stuck on the it did go on for so long . |
| 19 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 20 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 21 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
| 22 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 23 | 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 . |