Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 2 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 3 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 4 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 5 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 6 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 7 | ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates . |
| 8 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 9 | But he said to Bella , ‘ Yes , he told me , after , that he was dead drunk once , in Portsmouth , when he was on leave from the Navy , and he 'd had them tattooed on for a bet . ’ |
| 10 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 11 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 12 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 13 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 14 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 15 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 16 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 17 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
| 18 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 19 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 20 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 21 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 22 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 23 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |