Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 2 | The Sergeant and the Constable had continued on for two steps through the door towards their senior officer without realising that they had left Jimmy behind . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 4 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 5 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |