Example sentences of "have [vb pp] 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Both have gone on for a long time .
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