Example sentences of "go on [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , you go on looking for a solution to this difficult problem . |
| 2 | Well they go on flowering for quite , you you 've got |
| 3 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So the dream becomes a symbolic expression of this conflict and what very often happens is the there 's a kind of compromise in which you go off and look for the bathroom or the drink of water or whatever it is you want , but the dream keeps postponing you finding it , in order to lengthen the dream and the state of sleep , so you go on sleeping for a bit longer . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |