Example sentences of "[to-vb] on for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 3 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 5 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 6 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 7 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 8 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 9 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 10 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 11 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 12 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 13 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 14 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 15 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 16 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 17 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 18 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 19 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 20 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 21 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 22 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |
| 23 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 24 | It had to go on for ever . |
| 25 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 26 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 27 | Webb , who has agreed to play on for both Bath and England until a Registrar 's appointment becomes available , kicked five penalties and converted a superb Jeremy Guscott try to sink Quins . |
| 28 | You just need to want to sail on for ever … |
| 29 | Although its voluntary recruits diminished , the order had managed to limp on for nearly two centuries under Ixmarity 's watchful eye . |
| 30 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |