Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 2 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 3 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 4 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 5 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 6 | Trent had wanted out for so long — out of the secrecy and isolation . |
| 7 | The feudal Prussian Junkers , whose estates had limped on for as long as anyone could remember , were hit particularly hard by the Corridor . |