Example sentences of "[vb past] on for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , the wonderful aroma lingered on for days after . |
| 2 | The current plan is for single pricing , in place of offer and bid prices , with the initial charge added on for buyers . |
| 3 | I hung on for ages . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This sport went on for hours , well into the evening . |
| 6 | One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘ crying for help ’ which went on for hours and hours though she did not contact the police . |
| 7 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |
| 8 | The festivities went on for days . |
| 9 | It went on for days and thirst was a terrible thing , much worse than hunger ; so that , remembering his torture , how his lips had cracked , one rainy day , at random , on impulse , he had lapped a drink out of a puddle . |
| 10 | The Strangeways riot , which went on for days longer than necessary because of squabbling between the Home Office prison department and the prison governor . |
| 11 | For the first time , we had a row that went on for days . |
| 12 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 13 | The build up for the old firm game with Rangers went on for weeks . |
| 14 | But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft . |
| 15 | Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book . |
| 16 | And this went on for years this ? |
| 17 | When people looked after their own at home , you know , it went on for years and years , did n't it ? |
| 18 | On those walks , when Stephen was much younger , his father used to tell him stories about a family of moles he 'd invented , elaborate adventures that went on for miles . |
| 19 | Now the story of Britain 's biggest-ever robbery — and the massive money laundering operation that went on for months afterwards — will be told tomorrow night in ITV 's £2 million drama Fool 's Gold ( 9.05pm ) . |
| 20 | She had on that special queasy-bright look women like her put on for girls of my age . |
| 21 | She heard his voice downstairs , talking in the rather affected boom he put on for strangers . |
| 22 | It lasts for around five minutes and you ca n't work out exactly what it 's selling , but it leaves you wishing it carried on for hours . |
| 23 | The war dragged on for decades . |
| 24 | In terms of war , AIDS looks more like one of those medieval struggles that dragged on for decades than a relatively swift modern conflict . |
| 25 | Some dragged on for months , getting nowhere day after day , she said . |
| 26 | My own case dragged on for months , swamped with innuendos — if another student was having a clandestine consensual affair , why could n't I have been too ? |