Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 2 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 3 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 4 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 5 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 6 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 7 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 10 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 11 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 12 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 13 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |