Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [prep] ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room has no corners , no walls — it goes on for ever , it merges with a moonlit garden . |
| 2 | There are the inevitable distilleries : an industry that goes on for ever . |
| 3 | It 's best to have a time limit for a team 's deliberations — say thirty seconds — or the game goes on for ever . |
| 4 | That 's why it might be better to think of the Universe as not having a boundary — it goes on for ever . |
| 5 | It goes on for ever . |
| 6 | The cultural-ideological project of global capitalism is to persuade people to consume above their own perceived needs in order to perpetuate the accumulation of capital for private profit , in other words , to ensure that the global capitalist system goes on for ever . |
| 7 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 8 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 9 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 10 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 11 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 12 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 13 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 14 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 15 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 16 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 17 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 18 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 19 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 20 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 21 | Going on for ever and ever . |
| 22 | There are also two cardboard peepshows from c1850 , which seem to show a tunnel going on for ever . |
| 23 | We debated hopelessly , going round in ever decreasing circles : the Alps too crowded , the Himalaya too frightening . |
| 24 | It goes back for ever . |
| 25 | Now she says that she wo n't go on for ever . |
| 26 | The boy , unlike the dog , knew that the mud did not go on for ever ; beyond the bridge , the disused railway embankment along which they were walking became built up , so that water ran off it . |
| 27 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 28 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 29 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 30 | 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 . |