Example sentences of "[v-ing] on for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 5 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 6 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 7 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 8 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 9 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 10 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 11 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 12 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |
| 13 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 14 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 15 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |