Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking . |
| 32 | Social anthropologists can and do study members of their own society and they have been doing so for a long time , though mostly they do not do it very well . |
| 33 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 34 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 35 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 36 | ‘ I do n't think that will happen again for a long time , ’ said Davis , who comes to Goffs for this year 's event with confidence boosted by triumphs in the British and European Opens . |
| 37 | ‘ That woman friend of the boss who clings to his arm in the moonlight — do you think she will stay here for a long time ? ’ |
| 38 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 39 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 40 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 41 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 42 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 43 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 44 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 45 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 46 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 47 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 48 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 49 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 50 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 51 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 52 | The noise went on for a long time . |
| 53 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 54 | That went on for a long time . |
| 55 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 56 | The noise in the Opera House went on for a long time . |
| 57 | The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room . |
| 58 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 59 | This went on for a long time . |
| 60 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |