Example sentences of "lingers on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
| 2 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 3 | History rather suggests that the discipline needed for insurrection lingers on as an authoritative force after the revolution in a way that blocks the larger end of a socialism that advances opportunities for freedom and self-development through a true democracy of equals . |
| 4 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 5 | European Alexandria lingers on in the Italianate architecture , the long lines of balconies along the seafront , in the old shop signs in French and Arabic , in the Greek cafes like Trianon 's and Pastroudis with their air of idleness and neglect , and in old-fashioned pensions like the Hotel Normandie . |