Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 2 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 3 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 4 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 6 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
| 7 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 8 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 12 | However , Mrs Thompson vowed to fight on for other landlords even if time ran out for she and her husband . |
| 13 | In 1952 Walter Luff should have retired , but was twice persuaded to stay on for another year by the Transport Committee . |
| 14 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 15 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 16 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 17 | Hugo glanced at his watch , and decided to press on for another half-hour . |
| 18 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 19 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 20 | For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months . |
| 21 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 22 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 23 | They have n't put repeat on for that . |
| 24 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 25 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 26 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 27 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had already been allowed to stay on for two years beyond the age when she would normally have had to retire . |
| 30 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |