Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for [art] long " 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 His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates .
6 This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day .
7 B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time .
8 ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest .
9 There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time .
10 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 .
11 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
12 As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to .
13 Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’
14 ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’
15 Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’
16 Beyond pouring oil on troubled waters , the Queen can do no more than dig in for the long wait , guided by her husband .
17 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 .
18 You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance .
19 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 ? ’
20 Peter , ignoring his brother 's gibe about missing the sunsets , went to the window and stood gazing out for a long time without speaking .
21 Susan went to bed early , and Breeze and Gay made themselves toast and welsh rarebit , and settled down for a long evening by the fire .
22 They settled down for a long siege and so did the outside world .
23 By this time , Lou and Charlie had moved too — the business had been running down for a long period and there was no point in staying in a flat over a shop that did n't exist any more .
24 Everyone quietly settled down for a long wait .
25 But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’
26 Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’
27 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 ?
28 It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline .
29 History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War .
30 The list could go on for a long time .
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