Example sentences of "[to-vb] on for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 2 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 3 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 4 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 5 | He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years . |
| 6 | The slump is likely to go on for another two years . |
| 7 | He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God . |
| 8 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 9 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 10 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 11 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 12 | In a profession often noted for self-promotion and expediency she had become a trusted friend , hostess and shoulder to lean on for many . |
| 13 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 14 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 15 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 16 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |