Example sentences of "on [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’ |
| 2 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 3 | A few youngsters may go on sniffing for a while — perhaps regularly with their friends . |
| 4 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 5 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 6 | We went on walking for a while , in silence . |
| 7 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 8 | We go on praying for the release of hostages and prisoners held without a cause ; and we pray for peace , and especially for the peace of Jerusalem . |
| 9 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 10 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 11 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 12 | Inside FI , it was known that Emerson could have gone on driving for a major team and many thought it a pity that he had not stuck to doing what he knew best . |
| 13 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 14 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 15 | Now — are you going on looking for more ? ’ |
| 16 | Science has got to go on looking for knowledge . |
| 17 | I was interested in the waves of immigration into Britain both pre-historically and later , and I kept on looking for proposals which would represent this both in multi-cultural and archaeological terms . |
| 18 | ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome . |
| 19 | " Well , whether he has or not , " said Hazel , " we ca n't go on looking for him . |
| 20 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 21 | You 'll be safe here , and we 'll go on looking for your mammy and daddy . |
| 22 | Mrs Maxwell also denied this , saying : ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome . |
| 23 | Give what I hope is curt nod , though double chins seem to go on flapping for ever . |
| 24 | And yet , because of a shortage of telephone lines in the old east , and even though the government has a legal monopoly , it will allow the networks to go on operating for at least another year . |
| 25 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 26 | The over-zealous male then realises his mistake , lets him go and carries on searching for a female . |
| 27 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 28 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 29 | I , I , I , carried on smoking for a number of years after that . |
| 30 | A good compound would not have the unwanted actions of adrenaline on the heart and blood pressure , and would go on acting for longer . |