Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has come about for purely geographical reasons . |
| 2 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 3 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 4 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 5 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 6 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 7 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 8 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 9 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 10 | Is n't it worth getting dressed up for once ? ’ |
| 11 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 12 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 15 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 16 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 17 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
| 18 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 19 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 21 | COLBERT : It had gone on for too long : this is his ninth year on the Tour . |
| 22 | Thankfully , he had gone out for about an hour . |
| 23 | You doing a swim because that costs more , but it 's not just actual spa we 've put down for though |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | and you 'll be pleased to know that because we 've waffled on for so much we 'll have to save the county 's peculiar pastimes until tomorrow , |
| 26 | As she stared at him , she knew it had come , the moment of physical and emotional confrontation she had held off for so long , and she felt so vulnerable that she could barely breathe . |
| 27 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 28 | The British people are fighting back against the shoddy treatment with which we have put up for so long . |
| 29 | They found they could switch on particular groups of atoms with a pulse of electricity and they stayed switched on for up to two days . |