Example sentences of "[verb] on for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 3 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 4 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 5 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 6 | No , I could tell you a really boring joke that goes on for ages . |
| 7 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 8 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 9 | It sometimes cures itself , or sometimes goes on for years . |
| 10 | The hearings are likely to go on for months . |
| 11 | Today 's ‘ continuous ’ culture processes are designed to go on for months without completely emptying the fermenter . |
| 12 | And one man who seemed to go on for years was Cecil Dunford or " Slap " as he was known , an active man in all his pursuits in the village . |
| 13 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 14 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 15 | He opened a second door , which again had an elegant stained glass transom above it , and Belinda found it led to an open veranda that must connect with the one they had sat on for drinks . |
| 16 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
| 17 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 18 | Somehow , the wonderful aroma lingered on for days after . |
| 19 | The current plan is for single pricing , in place of offer and bid prices , with the initial charge added on for buyers . |
| 20 | DIR — but read on for warnings about using BACKUP with pseudo-devices . ) |
| 21 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 22 | And it bounced and bounced and bounced and I thought it was going on for ages but it did n't . |
| 23 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 24 | And the piss was going on for ages . |
| 25 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 26 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 27 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 28 | Almost equally important was the ending , by a series of agreements in 1745 , 1773 and 1790 , of a struggle for influence which had been going on for generations between the Reichskanzlei ( Imperial Chancery ) under its hereditary head , the Elector of Mainz , and the Hofkanzlei ( the Chancery of the Habsburg hereditary lands ) . |
| 29 | I thought this phone call had been going on for hours . |
| 30 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |