Example sentences of "[subord] it [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility . |
| 2 | If it dries up for three or four days it 's st dries up for three or four days and Dennis has to stop the minute he picks it up it 's just blown away . |
| 3 | It sounded vaguely political , chiefly because it went on for some while . |
| 4 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 5 | So popular was this concert that there was no admission charge , only a collection , as it went on for two evenings , but strangely enough , David did n't offer to take part , although George Underwood did and he had a very popular group called George and the Dragons at the time . |
| 6 | So while d'Abreu and his colleagues went off eastwards , even braver or more foolhardy men — following the banner of Castile — were determined to discover — heroically and , as it turned out for many of them , fatally — the way to reach this same Orient by travelling outwards to the West , across the vast unknown . |