Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only the pantomime could go on for ever . |
| 2 | For instance , a player could be paid £50,000 for a property which his new club will sell on for only £30,000 . |
| 3 | And even Rebecca can stay in for about twenty , twenty five minutes . |
| 4 | Lunch-times can go on for ever if you have no friends and no one invites you to join in with what they are doing . |
| 5 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 6 | Last year 's unstoppable strikeforce of Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will team up for only the third time this season , Hateley with a ten goal start on his partner . |
| 7 | Our friend will carry on for ever and never return . ’ |
| 8 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 9 | He launched his poems of silk down the Yellow River ; and he never knew that his silken ships would sail on for ever . |
| 10 | Children could go on for ever finding out information about dinosaurs and be no nearer satisfying this vague purpose . |
| 11 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 12 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |