Example sentences of "[verb] on [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 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 . ’
6 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 .
7 We ca n't go on leveraging for ever . ’
8 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 ?
9 Walsh thought that if it was left to the others they would go on talking for ever .
10 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 .
11 Well they go on flowering for quite , you you 've got
12 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 .
13 But she 's noticed among her friends that women carry on trying for much longer .
14 I carry on walking for quite a bit .
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