Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 3 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 4 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 5 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 6 | Eat self-blanching celery as soon as possible as it does not keep well for long periods . |
| 7 | ‘ It is only recently that Robert Gordon 's University has opened up the field for people to do courses like this without having to leave home for long periods . ’ |
| 8 | In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods . |
| 9 | The tool is also lightweight , compact , and has very low vibration levels , making it comfortable to use even for long periods . |
| 10 | Instead Garvey looked a jaded team and although they pressed hard for long periods , they could well have suffered a heavy defeat after a host of elementary mistakes gave Bann opportunities which should have been punished . |
| 11 | She could do without large conscript armies to defend land frontiers and needed long-service troops who could be employed overseas for long periods . |
| 12 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 13 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 14 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 15 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 16 | Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car . |
| 17 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 18 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 19 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |
| 20 | As the train chugged slowly forward , stopping inexplicably for long periods and even occasionally travelling backwards , Ludovico enjoyed the luxury of being able to examine his travelling companion openly while she slept . |
| 21 | Seven days treatment with a cumulative dose of dexamethasone equivalent to 0.75 g prednisolone has been followed by osteonecrosis with the appearance of symptoms two years later , whereas most patients receiving steroids , do so for long periods and in higher doses without developing articular symptoms . |
| 22 | avoid sitting down for long periods |
| 23 | Avoid sitting down for long periods without a break . |
| 24 | Many other jobs involve ‘ hard stress ’ of this latter kind — foreign exchange dealers and nurses work intensely for long hours . |