Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] long time " in BNC.

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1 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
2 ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’
3 It seemed to go on for a long time .
4 To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions .
5 This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day .
6 B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time .
7 ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest .
8 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
9 Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks .
10 This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go
11 Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’
12 ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’
13 Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’
14 You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it .
15 You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance .
16 Shrouded in snow and shivering with cold , I arrive at the door of the friary , and after calling out for a long time , the brother porter gets up and asks : ‘ Who is it ? ’
17 Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking .
18 But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’
19 Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’
20 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 ?
21 It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline .
22 History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War .
23 The list could go on for a long time .
24 This is another list that could go on for a long time .
25 The argument will go on for a long time .
26 I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell .
27 But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear ,
28 It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’
29 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 .
30 It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says .
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