Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 2 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 3 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 4 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 5 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 8 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 10 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 11 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |
| 12 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 13 | 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 . |