Example sentences of "have [verb] on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 2 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 3 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 4 | After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen . |
| 5 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 6 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 7 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 8 | Both have gone on for a long time . |