Example sentences of "[verb] on for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 32 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 33 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 34 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 35 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 36 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 37 | For God 's sake , this had been going on for years , with animals making a noise — surely this is what country life is all about and it would be a sad day if there were no noises from the farms or from the back gardens of our cottages . |
| 38 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 39 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 40 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 41 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 42 | The battle for him though has been going on for years ai n't it Gordon ? |
| 43 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 44 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 45 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 46 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 47 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 48 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 49 | It 's been going on for months |
| 50 | Denis Smith says there 's no match you can bank on for points but as long as they get results they do n't care where they come from . |
| 51 | Shoppers hang on for bargains |
| 52 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 53 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 54 | Debate on Southcom 's future , which has dragged on for years , was put on hold when American relations with General Noriega reached rock-bottom . |
| 55 | ‘ Businesses which have been clinging on for months are now going over the edge . ’ |
| 56 | The couriers signed on for courses at two language schools in order to get visas , but were caught when one had his baggage searched at Heathrow . |
| 57 | Ring on for details . |
| 58 | Hampers were laid on for picnics , parcels of treats supplied for midnight romps in Swiss Alpine dorms , and no child 's insatiable hunger went unsatisfied . |
| 59 | Kate managed to persuade one of the drivers of the hire cars Carlisle Flint had laid on for sponsors to drop her back to the hotel where the team were based . |
| 60 | Contact on for details of your nearest Redken appointed salon . |