Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 2 | Yasmin is expecting another child in the autumn and , although she will have to make some difficult decisions about whether or not to continue with her career after the baby is born , she is still determined to carry on working for as long as she can . |
| 3 | Give what I hope is curt nod , though double chins seem to go on flapping for ever . |
| 4 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 5 | Basically he 'd over indulged for too many years , to the point here even he realised he 'd gone too far . ’ |
| 6 | She lay on her stomach on top of the hay , dusty spikes tickling her ears and her nostrils and said , ‘ I wish I was a farmer , I could go on harvesting for ever and ever and ever . ’ |
| 7 | It is the work of the resulting army of dedicated and sincere reformers who through the centuries have fought to make mankind accept that the Second Choice is the right one , that has provided , and will go on providing for ever , the real power for the production of the good that will be assigned to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
| 8 | We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’ |
| 9 | After all , he could n't go on driving for ever , he 'd just drive straight into another ocean , and that was what he was trying to get away from , was n't it , the ocean ? |
| 10 | Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever . |
| 11 | Whatever one feels about his captaincy at Old Trafford , nobody could possibly do other than admire a man who went on to bat for more than five hours , immediately after suffering a truly horrific hammering in the field . |
| 12 | Well they go on flowering for quite , you you 've got |
| 13 | Some of those waves at the bottom of the world — I mean you can tell by the look of them they have come from the beginnings of time and will roll right over you and go on rolling for ever . |
| 14 | But she 's noticed among her friends that women carry on trying for much longer . |
| 15 | I carry on walking for quite a bit . |
| 16 | In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory . |
| 17 | ‘ Last year , at the twentieth anniversary dinner of the first Frazier fight , you got up to speak and you ended up talking for probably ten minutes . |
| 18 | Apart from moisture vapour , the air also contains millions of tiny plant spores which float around looking for somewhere to live and multiply . |