Example sentences of "they [verb] on for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 2 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 3 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |
| 4 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 5 | They went on for three hours before she fell asleep , exhausted but more relaxed than since her husband died . |
| 6 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 7 | Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city . |