Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 4 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 5 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 7 | We did n't hang around for as long that day — we must rigged the boats ( with a little help ) and prepared to set off . |
| 8 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 9 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 10 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 11 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 12 | We 'll be coming back for as long as we can . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Otherwise carry on for as long as you feel fit . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |