Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 2 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She said , ‘ Well , it wo n't be going on for much longer . |
| 5 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 6 | It 'll go on for much longer . |
| 7 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 8 | Anna 's affair went on for much longer and she became so dependent on it that there was no way she could go back . |
| 9 | I do n't think the monkeys will be on for much longer then , a few moments |
| 10 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 11 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 12 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 13 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 14 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 15 | This terrible matter has brought shame on Leicestershire , and we expect to get to the heart of how it could have gone on for so long , while apparently nobody did anything about it . |
| 16 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 17 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 19 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 20 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 21 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 22 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Otherwise carry on for as long as you feel fit . |
| 28 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 29 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 30 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |