Example sentences of "[vb infin] on for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second . |
| 3 | Denis Smith says there 's no match you can bank on for points but as long as they get results they do n't care where they come from . |
| 4 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 5 | And if they had to brave that to make a phone call , they might as well press on for home . |
| 6 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 7 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 8 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 9 | And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ? |
| 10 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |
| 11 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 12 | ‘ He 'll go on for hours . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 14 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 15 | This could go on for hours . |
| 16 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 17 | I could go on for pages . |
| 18 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 19 | We can have an infinite chess game which will go on for months . |
| 20 | The room , Robert felt , might go on for yards and yards . |
| 21 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
| 22 | Once you start linking drama and topic work you 'll find that your drama projects can go on for weeks . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 24 | I 'd like to compliment ZZAP ! on a great mag which I 'm sure will go on for years to come ( ho ho ho ! — Ed . ) |
| 25 | An analysis may go on for years , so the free associations , and the dreams recalled , will be conditioned by the analytic process itself , the patient 's contribution increasingly representing the assumptions of the analyst . |
| 26 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 27 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 28 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 29 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 30 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |