Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you will , if this goes on for much longer . |
| 2 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 3 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 6 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 7 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 8 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 9 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 10 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 11 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 12 | Hence the first floor is a sort of piano nobile , a recent and foreign innovation which did not catch on for very long in smaller English country houses . |
| 13 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 14 | However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer . |
| 15 | It is to suggest that sexual difficulty , or problems in the field of sexual relationship , should be looked out for more often by social workers and others concerned with them , and looked at more from the child 's own point of view . |
| 16 | Without the imperative of obedience , albeit lovingly enforced , the child may come to conclude that if he holds out for long enough , demanding his own will , he 'll get his own way in the end . |
| 17 | ‘ You might as well hang around for as long as you can . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 21 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 22 | Cut off for so long from most western visitors , the wonderful and varied scenery and marvellous historic cities will surely make this country one of the most popular tourist destinations of all . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Professional counselling is the best way forward for you because your feelings have been bottled up for so long . |
| 25 | This one seems to have been going on for far too long ! |
| 26 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | She said , ‘ Well , it wo n't be going on for much longer . |