Example sentences of "on [verb] for the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilgamesh went on to search for the secret of immortality and according to the legend he almost succeeded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 4 | Now it will go on to compete for the title of best pig in Britain . |
| 5 | Your Committee will , of course , go on working for the continuation of the Line , but we need your help and your influence — GO BY TRAIN , TRAVEL ON THE HEART OF WALES LINE . |
| 6 | All too often husbands actually prevented their wives from coming to the picket line and there were cases where parents-in-law forced women to go on working for the sort of reasons described in Chapter 6 . |