Example sentences of "[vb infin] on for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 2 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 3 | He would hang on for that . |
| 4 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 5 | First Response have a freephone help-line , manned by trained advisors , which you can ring on for more specialist , individual advice on using both tests . |
| 6 | Jenking let the ship run on for another fifteen minutes or so . |
| 7 | Erm I have four or five people I can take on for any one of those companies so nobody 's in competition with |
| 8 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 9 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 10 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 12 | John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’ |
| 13 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 14 | Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ? |
| 15 | And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years . |
| 16 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 17 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 18 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 19 | Erm , and , and I think sadly , as well the problem is that if this recession does go on for any length of time then we will be losing many of our |
| 20 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 21 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 22 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 23 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 24 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 25 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 26 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 27 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |