Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 3 | This has come about for purely geographical reasons . |
| 4 | After the Ebro , Catalonia could not be expected to hold on for long , and if Catalonia fell the rest of Republican Spain was likely to follow . |
| 5 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 6 | This separation has gone on for far too long . |
| 7 | Hon. Members will have an opportunity to debate the Bill , but , whatever happens , it is far better to have a system that is more accountable to local people and that will , we hope , put an end to some of the ridiculous mismanagement , inefficiency and wasting of money that has gone on for far too long . |
| 8 | Helen Lockwood , director of Teesside Society for the Blind , said : ‘ Nothing seems to be happening and this has gone on for so long now . |
| 9 | This one has gone on for so much longer — two years so far with no sign of it coming to an end . ’ |
| 10 | Pauchling the figures has gone on for so long that even the newscasters have got sloppy , mostly failing to add the rider that the bald headcount does not include anybody excluded from claiming benefit for whatever reason . |
| 11 | Bantam has gone back for nearly 400,000 Maya Angelou paperbacks . |
| 12 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 13 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 14 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 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 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 18 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 19 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 20 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 24 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 25 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 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 | Is n't it worth getting dressed up for once ? ’ |
| 29 | small wonder the next England manager agonised so long over a job that any other candidate ( were there any ? ) would have mulled over for about half a second . |
| 30 | 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 . |