Example sentences of "[vb past] on for another " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 2 | Er , her father lived on for another six years . |
| 3 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 4 | And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died . |
| 5 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 6 | ( She went on for another seven ! ) . |
| 7 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 8 | The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up . |
| 9 | The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up . |
| 10 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 11 | McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards . |
| 12 | An hour of wall-to-wall Carpeting would have been perfect , but they would n't get offstage , and dragged on for another 30 minutes . |
| 13 | The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland . |