Example sentences of "go [adv] for [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 2 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 3 | He delayed going upstairs for as long as possible , partly in a hopeless pretense of getting the papers finished with , and partly to avoid Sara . |
| 4 | Do they really go on for as long as they seem to , or are they , as some people have suggested , fleeting sensations before waking up ? |
| 5 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |