Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Ebro , Catalonia could not be expected to hold on for long , and if Catalonia fell the rest of Republican Spain was likely to follow . |
| 2 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 3 | This allows just over a year to look out for possible candidates and suitable premises ; with regard to the latter , teachers are asked to look out for centrally situated schools with a good hall and piano , close to mainline travel facilities . |
| 4 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 5 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 9 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 10 | 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 . |